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Argentina’s Atlantis

  • June 6, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Villa Epecuen is Argentina’s real-life Atlantis. Built beside a salt lake in the 1920s, the resort was submerged under 33 feet of water after a long period of rain began a slow flood in 1985. In 2009, the water began receding, revealing the town’s salt-encrusted ruins.

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