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TheCity of the Caesars (SpanishCiudad de los Césares), also variously known asCity of Patagonia,the Wandering City,Trapalanda orTrapananda,Lin Lin orElelín, is amythical city of South America. It was supposedly located somewhere inPatagonia, in a valley of theAndes betweenChile andArgentina. Despite being searched for during thecolonization of South America, no evidence proves that it ever existed, although reports of it circulated for two hundred years.[1] In 1766 aJesuit, Father José García Alsue, explored the area now part ofQueulat National Park inAysén Region, Chile, searching unsuccessfully for the City of the Caesars.
The city is described as prosperous and rich, plenty of gold, silver and diamonds. At least one description says it was located in between two mountains, somewhere in the Andes mountains, one of gold and another of diamonds.[2] Sometimes it is described as an enchanted city that appears in certain moments; or such that those who come upon it by chance in their travels forget the encounter; or such that hunters of it will walk away with mountains of fortune and treasure. Its purported founders include survivors of a Spanish shipwreck in theStrait of Magellan, survivors in exile of theDestruction of the Seven Cities,ghosts,Patagonian giants and survivors of theInca Empire; indeed, one explanation of the legend is that it derived from stories told to sailors by aborigines describing the Empire of Peru.[3]
Charles Sheffield's science fiction story "Trapalanda" (inAsimov's Science Fiction, June, 1987) is built around a quest to find Trapalanda.Pacha Pulai byHugo Silva [es] is a Chilean novel about a young aviator finding the City of the Caesars by accident.
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