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Prologue
SOME 18 million years ago as the Andes rose out of the Eastern Pacific Ocean the Tinajani basin formed. A lake began to form in the basin. Over the eons the lake grew and shrank and often disappeared altogether for long periods of time as the basin continued to be lifted higher out of the ocean from where it had come.
A permanent lake formed about 370,000 years ago at nearly four kilometres above sea level. The size and shape of the lake would change drastically over the years. During the ice ages there was more water in the lake fed by the mountain glaciers. During the dry interglacials the water level dropped and the water became less pure.
Regardless, the giant lost world ocean remained isolated in its arid basin four kilometres above the ocean with no river connecting it to the sea through the world’s driest desert. When people settled here they uniquely adapted to the lake conditions creating giving rise to several cultural groups unlike anything found anywhere else on Earth.
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