Calçoene
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Calçoene is a municipality located in the eastern of the state of Amapá in Brazil. Its population is 7,208 and its area is 14,269 km². There was a Russian émigrés colony in its area in the first decades of 20th century.
In May 2006, archeologists announced they had found a pre-colonial astronomical observatory possibly 500 to 2,000 years old near Calçoene, which is in the Amazon River basin near French Guiana. Archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral of the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IEPA) said that the observatory is a circle built of 127 blocks of granite, each 3 meters (10 feet) high.
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- 'Amazon Stonehenge' - Yahoo story
- 'Brazilian Stonehenge' - BBC story w/overview picture
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- Archaeoastronomy story
- IEPA information
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