Talk:Sacambaya River

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Did you know... that according to legend, the Sacambaya River houses treasure hidden in a cavern by Jesuits?

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 14:45, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that according to legend the Sacambaya River houses treasure hidden in a cavern by Jesuits? Source: Prodgers, Cecil Herbert (1924). Adventures in Bolivia. John Lane.
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Created by Graearms (talk). Self-nominated at 16:18, 14 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Sacambaya River; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

@Graearms: Article has a 5x expansion and doesn't appear to have any copying/paraphrasing. Hook is interesting and matches article. Article appears to be well sourced. Unfortunately I was unable to access the source used in the hook, but another source in the article (on proquest) mentions the legend of the treasure of the Jesuits so I'm able to verify that part, although this source missed out the "cave system" part. Everything looks good, so I'll approve with good faith with this cave system issue. —Panamitsu (talk) 02:40, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Panamitsu: To verify the claim about the cave system,

From the source https://www.peruviantimes.com/26/atahualpas-ransom-other-treasure-fables/13455/: "The Indians, who numbered from half a dozen to several hundred in the various accounts, were then murdered by the Jesuits and buried in the cave, which was sealed."

From the source https://books.google.com/books?id=E43Fl9NztzUC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq&hl: "Beneath the stone, according to the account, lay a network of underground caverns."

From page 143 of the source https://books.google.com/books?id=ga5lAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q&hl: "If you dig down underneath this stone for five yards, you will find the roof of a large cave."

I have edited the hook to say "cavern" instead of "cave system" because the primary source Adventures in Bolivia did not mention any cave system or network, instead just "cave." However, all of the sources agreed on some variety of cave existing. Graearms (talk) 12:48, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]