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The following is an incomplete list of ghost towns, listed by continent, then by country.

Saint Martin of the Tigers (in Portuguese: São Martinho dos Tigres), a settlement situated on a peninsula now known as the Tigres Island (in Portuguese: Ilha dos Tigres), was originally a small but well established fishing village. It was supplied with water from the nearby town of Foz do Cunene, at the mouth of the Cunene River. In the 1970s, Saint Martin of the Tigers was cut off from the mainland by the rising sea levels, and its water supply line was severed; both Tigres and Foz do Cunene were subsequently abandoned. The island, bound by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Tigres Strait, lies in a zone that is ideally suited for ecological projects. The island was mentioned in the BBC documentary "Unknown Africa: Angola". Foz do Cunene, located near Saint Martin of the Tigers and similarly abandoned due to rising sea levels. Nova Cidade de Kilamba was an under occupied development built by China International Trust and Investment Company near Luanda. Although the city's population eventually grew, in early days it was heralded as a ghost town and predicted to stay that way. Lere, Central African Republic.

Avshalom, Dikla, Nahal Yam, Netiv HaAsara, Sufa, Talmei Yosef, Yamit, and Pri'el were Israeli settlements in the Sinai built after the Six Day War in 1967. They were dismantled by the Israeli government after the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the Egypt Israel peace treaty of 1979 and are today abandoned.

Dallol is a former mining town located in the Dallol crater, where the temperature can rise as high as 104 °F (40 °C). Abala, a town on the border between Tigray and Afar, was largely abandoned following months of violence during the Tigray War.

Grand Bassam was the French Colonial capital of Côte d'Ivoire until 1896 when it was abandoned by the French Colonial Government. Commercial activity gradually weakened until the city became a virtual ghost town in 1960, the same year Côte d'Ivoire became independent. Today the city has revived somewhat as a tourist center, but it still has the aura of a ghost town.

Chinguetti is a former medieval trading center on the Adrar Plateau.

Ahouli is an abandoned lead mining village in central Morocco.

Bowesdorp is a former village near Kamieskroon. Eureka City is an abandoned mining town in Mpumalanga. It is now a historical site. Diepgezet is an abandoned asbestos mining town in Mpumalanga. It was transferred to tribal land and renamed to Msauli. Leydsdorp is an abandoned mining town near Tzaneen in Limpopo province. Millwood is an abandoned mining town near Knysna. Plaaitjieskraal is an abandoned fishing town near Pearly Beach. Pomfret, North West is an abandoned asbestos mining town in the North West province. Putsonderwater is an abandoned town in the Northern Cape.

In the northeast of Sudan lies the old city of Sawakin. It is now in ruins. It is said to be in restoration now and will reopen as a tourist attraction.

Lukangol was destroyed during the 2011 South Sudan clashes. Before its destruction, it had a population of 20,000.

La Güera is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara. It is Western Sahara's southernmost town. It has been uninhabited and partly buried by drifting sand since 2002.

The islands of Antarctica, particularly South Georgia, were popular with whalers during the first half of the 20th century, and many of the settlements on these islands are former whaling stations. Most of them were closed down during the Great Depression, when whaling became unprofitable, and are now abandoned. These settlements include:

Aghdam, the capital of Agdam Rayon. In July 1993, after heavy fighting, Agdam was captured by Armenian forces during their 1993 summer offensives. As the town fell, its entire population was forced to flee eastwards. Many Azerbaijanis were killed by Armenian soldiers. In the immediate aftermath of the fighting, the Armenian forces decided to destroy parts of Agdam to prevent its recapture by Azerbaijan. More damage occurred in the following decades when the deserted town was looted for building materials. Agdam is currently a ruinous, uninhabited ghost town. The town's large mosque survives in poor condition. However, Aghdam has been undergoing reconstruction since May 2021, with 19 residents registered as of November 2023 and is predicted to have new residents by 2026. Fuzuli, Azerbaijani citizens where expelled by Armenia in 1993. The city was recaptured by Azerbaijan in 2020, and it is slowly being settled again. Jabrayil, the city was inhabited and seemingly abandoned by Armenians in the 1600s. In 1993, Armenia expelled the Azerbaijani population. Shusha, over a period of over 100 years the city has been subject to multiple ethnic cleansing attempts resulting in the city becoming a ghost town, imposed by both Azerbaijan and Armenia starting with the Shusha massacre against Armenians in 1920. The Azerbaijani population was removed in 1993 when forces from Stepanakert burnt houses in an attempt to destroy the Azerbaijani stronghold responsible for constant bombing of their city. In 2020 the Armenian population was expelled again in the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh War. Stepanakert, in 2023 Azerbaijan led an offensive against the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh. The capital, Stepanakert, was captured and the Armenian population was forced to flee to Armenia. Reportedly over 100,000 people fled the county before its dissolution.

Panam City in Sonargaon was established in the late 19th century as a trading center of cotton fabrics during British rule. Here the Hindu cloth merchants built their residential houses. After the Indo Pakistani War of 1965 and the Muslim Hindu riot, Panam City has reduced into a vacant community. Today this area is protected under the department of archaeology of Bangladesh. Panam city area was linked with the main city area by three brick bridges – Panam Bridge, Dalalpur Bridge, and Panam Nagar Bridge – during the Mughal period. The bridges are still in use.

East Point was a settlement in the atoll of Diego Garcia, and it has been abandoned after the depopulation of the territory, it is restricted to visitors.

Bokor Hill Station was a resort town built by colonial French settlers in 1921.

The Kangbashi District of Ordos City, was intended to house one million people, but soaring property prices and lack of infrastructure deterred residents of Ordos from relocating to the newly built up area, and it now stands largely deserted. In 2010, the population of Kangbashi was around 20,000 to 30,000, a fraction of its total capacity. Niya, in the Tarim Basin, was once a major commercial center dating back to around 500–1000 AD. Houtouwan, a depopulated fishing village, now a major tourist attraction.

Bedolah, Bnei Atzmon, Dugit, Elei Sinai, Gadid, Gan Or, Ganei Tal, Katif, Kerem Atzmona, Kfar Darom, Kfar Yam, Morag, Netzarim, Neve Dekalim, Netzer Hazani, Nisanit, Pe'at Sade, Rafiah Yam, Slav, and Tel Katifa were Israeli settlements established from 1973 to 1990 in the Gaza Strip under the Hof Aza Regional Council; all were evacuated during Israel's unilateral disengagement in 2005.

Armazi, the original capital of the country, was destroyed in AD 736 by the Arab invader Marwan ibn Muhammad and never rebuilt, apart from a church, built in the 12th century but later abandoned. The ruins are now protected. Ochamchire was a city of 18,700 people in 1978 but was left largely abandoned by the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in 1992–1993. Tkvarcheli is a coal mining town that suffered a drastic population decline as a result of the war in Abkhazia.

Dhanushkodi, on Pamban Island, was a flourishing tourist town until it was wiped out by the 1964 Dhanushkodi cyclone. Fatehpur Sikri was briefly the capital of the Mughal Empire, but was abandoned soon after its completion, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mandu is a fortress town in Madhya Pradesh, dating back at least as far as 555 AD. Old Goa was once the center of Christianization in the east, but it became largely abandoned in the 17th century, due to an outbreak of malaria and cholera. Ross Island was the administrative center of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands until the 1941 Andaman Islands earthquake, leaving the settlement in ruins. Vijaynagara was possibly the second largest city in the world in 1500, with around 500,000 inhabitants. It was captured and destroyed by Muslim armies in 1565, and has been abandoned ever since. Hampi is a World Heritage Site within this town. Lakhpat was once a bustling port town at the mouth of Kori creek of Kutch. After the earthquake of 1819, the Indus river changed its course of flow resulting in the abandonment of the port by people. The town surrounded by a fort wall now houses only a few hundred people and a large number of ruined buildings. Bhangarh Fort, a 17th century fort built by King Sawai Madho Singh in Rajasthan was abandoned following a curse, according to legends. Kuldhara is an abandoned town near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Prabalgad, a hill fort near Matheran, Maharashtra which was abandoned due to its difficult access and scarcity of water. Madh Fort near Mumbai is a small fort that is in disuse following a decline in its importance. Golkonda Fort near Hyderabad was a fort city and the seat of the Qutb Shahi dynasty was destroyed after defeating by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

Berastepu, a village in Karo Regency, North Sumatra, was abandoned due to 2013 eruptions of Mount Sinabung. Petobo, a village in Palu, Central Sulawesi, was destroyed due to the liquefaction of 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami.

Soltaniyeh was the 14th century capital of the Mongol Ilkhanid rulers of Persia, but is now "a deserted, crumbling spread of ruins".

Hashima Island was a Japanese mining town from 1887 to 1974. Once known for having the world's highest population density (in 1959 at ), the island was abandoned when the coal mines were closed down. Ōkuma, Fukushima was a large Japanese town with a population of 11,515 people. It was completely evacuated along with the ( voluntarily) zone surrounding the nuclear plant in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Ikeshima Island was a mining town in Nagasaki Prefecture. The town had an estimated population of over 10,000, but after the coal mines closure in 2001 thousands left. In 2018 it had a population of 130.

Chagan, former Soviet air base and urban settlement.

Balykchy, a lakeside town. Though maintaining a large population, the town has declined significantly from its former industrial power. Engilchek, an old Soviet mining town. Ming Kush, a Soviet uranium mining town that declined from 20,000 to 2,000 residents.

Boten, once a hub of gambling and crime, turned into an underpopulated development by casino shutdowns and Chinese economic decisions. Loechon, also known as Lakhon, an ancient abandoned city near Thakhek.

Bjerrine, in the Byblos District, was a town with a silk factory that was abandoned during the great famine under Ottoman control during World War I. Urban legends say that all of the villagers were on the same boat to America when it sank, taking the town's history with it. Ain el Halazoun, a Christian village that was destroyed during the Lebanese Civil War. The village's sole inhabitant was a former resident who returned to his decimated hometown, shown in the 2008 documentary "The One Man Village".

Bukit Kutu is a former hill station that was abandoned after being bombed by the Japanese army during World War II. Bukit Besi is a former mining town in Terengganu, Malaysia. The population dropped drastically after 1971 when the Eastern Mining and Metal Corporation (EMMCO) closed their operation because the iron ore there was exhausted. Kampung Kepayang, in Perak, is almost uninhabited, with only two or three shophouses being in use. This is a result of the widening of the main road, which made it difficult to park a vehicle and resulted in the shops losing business. However, there are still Malays who reside in the village houses behind the shophouses, and the addresses in Simpang Pulai are still written as "Kampung Kepayang". Sungai Lembing, Pahang, Malaysia. Pekan Papan was once thriving mining town in Pusing, Perak.

Kijong dong, a fake town set up near the border with South Korea to give the illusion of prosperity. Kumgang, a South Korean tourist complex in North Korea where families separated by the border would meet each other. After political tensions prevented families from using Kumgang to meet, it rapidly lost visitors.

Sap Bani Khamis is an abandoned village halfway up a canyon, accessible only by a narrow path.

Marawi has been forcibly evacuated of its residents since 2017.

Al ʽArish is an old fishing village on the Northern coast of Qatar in the Middle East. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it was abandoned in the early 1970s and has since become a ghost town.

Butugychag is a former Gulag forced labor camp, and one of the few camps in which prisoners mined uranium. Gamsutl, one of the oldest settlements in Dagestan, abandoned in 2015. Khalmer Yu is a former urban type settlement in the Komi Republic, disestablished in 1995. In 1993 it was decided to shut down mining operations and to liquidate the settlement by 1995. Mologa is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast that was flooded to create the Rybinsk Reservoir. Neftegorsk is a former town in Sakhalin Oblast that was almost destroyed in a 1995 earthquake and never rebuilt. Kadykchan is a former mining town in Magadan Oblast. Kyubyume in Yakutia. Naukan in Chukotka.

A few blocks of HDB flats (apartment flats) located in the Lim Chu Kang area of the island is known to be the only ghost town in Singapore. Named the Neo Tiew Estate (or officially the Lim Chu Kang Rural Centre), it used to house residents before they were moved out of the vicinity in 2002 as part of an En bloc scheme. Since then the Singapore government has declared it state land and nothing was done to demolish or renovate the flats. The area was used by the Singapore Army as a training facility from 2005–2009 until a newer training facility was built nearby in 2008. The facility was used most recently in 2012 when it was used to shoot scenes for the film Ah Boys to Men. As of today, its fate remains unknown.

The city of Quneitra became a ghost town after the 1967 Six Day War and subsequent Yom Kippur War in 1973. The ruins were left in place, and a museum has been built to memorialize the destruction. Billboards are maintained at the ruins of many buildings and the town is effectively preserved in the condition that the wars left it in.

The Sanzhi UFO houses in Taiwan were a set of abandoned pod shaped buildings built in New Taipei City as a vacation resort. They stood abandoned for thirty years before being demolished in 2010.

The city of Old Ayutthaya was the capital of the country from its foundation in 1350 until it was sacked and destroyed by the Burmese in 1767. The site is now Ayutthaya Historical Park.

Ani, in Kars Province, was once the capital of the Armenian Bagratuni kingdom. It has been abandoned since the eighteenth century and is now a museum town. Çökene in Büyükorhan district was a village until 2008. It is a site of empty houses after immigration to big cities due to money shortage and unemployment. Kayaköy was abandoned as a result of the 1923 population exchange between Turkey and Greece and is now preserved as a museum village. Sazak near Karaburun, a district of İzmir Province on the Aegean (western) coast of Turkey, was also inhabited by Greeks, which left the area according to the population exchange treaty. Nowadays Sazak is a total ghost town.

Kantubek used to have a population of around 1,500 and housed scientists and employees for Aralsk 7, a biological weapons test site. It was abandoned in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The village of Döllersheim was evicted and demolished due to the construction of a Wehrmacht training ground.

The former village of Súðavík, in the Westfjords, a remote region of NW Iceland. In 1995, an avalanche fell on the small village, resulting in 14 fatalities. It was later decided that the location of the town was unsafe for year round occupation. It has been forbidden ever since to live in the old town permanently. A new village was built from the ground up a few miles away from the old site in a safer location.

Miners' Village, Glendalough, County Wicklow was a small village based around a galena mine. The village was largely inhabited from 1825 to 1957 when the mine closed permanently. Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, was evacuated in 1953 after being repeatedly cut off from the mainland due to poor weather. Its 160 residents were relocated to the mainland by the government. Innisfallen Island is the site of Innisfallen Abbey, once home to Finian Lobhar. Rindoon, County Roscommon, was deserted by the 14th century. Slievemore is a deserted village on Achill Island. Scattery Island is the site of a former village and monastery, and was once the home of Saint Senan.

Alianello is a village in Aliano municipality, evacuated after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. Argentiera is a former mining town in Sassari that suffered a population decline after World War II. Avi, in Piedmont. Balestrino, a town and municipality in Liguria whose old town was abandoned in 1953. Bussana Vecchia is a town in Liguria that was abandoned following an earthquake in 1887. Campomaggiore Vecchio was a town in Potenza that was destroyed by an avalanche in 1885. The modern town of Campomaggiore has replaced it. Cirella Vecchia is the old town of Cirella. Civita di Bagnoregio is a town in Lazio that declined over the 16th and 17th centuries. Connio Vecchio (Old Connio), Piedmont. Consonno, Olginate. Craco, in the province of Matera, was depopulated in the middle of the 20th century, due to a landslide and the subsequent emigration. The abandonment has made Craco a popular filming location for movies such as The Nativity Story, The Passion of the Christ and Quantum of Solace. Curon in South Tyrol, the original site of which was flooded under Reschensee during its construction in 1950. Graun in South Tyrol, the original site of which was flooded under Reschensee during its construction in 1950. Herculaneum was mostly destroyed and buried under of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Melito Vecchio (Old Melito), Avellino. Monteruga, Apulia. Pentedattilo, in Calabria, was severely damaged by the 1783 Calabrian earthquakes, and was completely abandoned by the 1960s. Poggioreale is a town in Sicily that was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake. Pompeii was mostly destroyed and buried under of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Poveglia is an abandoned island that was once a quarantine station for Plague Victims and other victims of several diseases up until the 20th century. Reschen in South Tyrol, the original site of which was flooded under Reschensee during its construction in 1950. and in 2019 there was a proposal aiming to recover the village with a mix of functions called Ecomuseum of Pratomagno. San Martino Monteneve in the province of Bolzano was a mining town at above sea level between the Ridanna Valley and the Passirio Valley. It sits atop of mining tunnels running from one valley to the other. It is now part of the Monteneve mining museum. Tocco Caudio, in Benevento, was abandoned following the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. Leri Cavour is an abandoned village in Piedmont, situated next to a defunct nuclear reactor. Its most impressive building is the mansion of Camillo Cavour, who is famous for his efforts in creating a united Italy.

Skrunda 1, the site of a former Soviet Hen House radar installation, is a ghost town that was auctioned off in its entirety in early 2010. Irbene, the site of a former Soviet secret radar center "Звезда".

Many villages in the Netherlands were lost to the sea, see List of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands for the complete list. Schokland, this was a very large island in the Middle Ages, but due to the rising sea level in the Zuiderzee, the island became smaller and smaller until the island was demolished by a storm in 1825. The three villages on the island: Emmeloord, Molenbuurt and Middelbuurt were abandoned. When the Noordoostpolder was created, this piece of land became visible again. Emmeloord was rebuilt on a different location in the Noordoostpolder. Waterdunen, this town was lost to the North Sea in 1357. Later when the land was reclaimed the town was rebuilt, only to be lost again a century later. One of many Dutch villages to be lost to the North Sea, list of flooded villages in Zeeland. Bommenede, the village was flooded on January 26, 1682. The destruction was so great, that the Estates of Holland decided not to rebuild the village, and the last inhabitants left in 1684. Some remains of the village (now sometimes referred to as Oud Bommenede) still remain visible. Nowadays, there is still some overgrown debris in the waters of the Grevelingen.

Pyramiden ("The Pyramid") was a Russian settlement and coal mining community on the archipelago of Svalbard. It was founded by Sweden in 1910, and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927. The settlement, with a onetime population of 1,000 inhabitants, was abandoned in the late 1990s by its owner, the state owned Soviet company Trust Artikugol, and is now a ghost town.

Boreraig, on the Isle of Skye, was one of many villages that were forcibly evacuated by Scottish aristocrats in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bothwellhaugh, in North Lanarkshire, is a former coal mining town that now lies under Strathclyde Loch. Hallaig, on the island of Raasay, depopulated as part of the Highland Clearances and subject of a famous Gaelic poem by Sorley MacLean. Mingulay, an island at the southern end of the Outer Hebrides, depopulated as part of the ongoing effects of the Highland Clearances, the village on the island finally abandoned in 1912. The Monach Islands, also known as Heisker, in the Outer Hebrides; the village abandoned in 1932 and depopulated in 1942 with the closure of the lighthouse. North Rona is a remote Scottish island that has been deserted since 1844. Scarp, whose last permanent inhabitants left for nearby Harris in 1971. Site of Gerhard Zucker's experiments with rocket mail. Saint Kilda is an archipelago in the Outer Hebrides that was abandoned in 1930, and is now a World Heritage Site.

Capel Celyn in Gwynedd was flooded in 1965 to create the reservoir Llyn Celyn. Llangaffo in Anglesey, north of Dwyran, south of Gaerwen and northwest of Llanidan where the school had closed down and has a ghost town status in 2023. Nant Gwrtheyrn in Gwynedd is a former quarry town that became abandoned during World War II, but is now the site of a Welsh language learning centre.

Cinchona (Sarapiquí, Alajuela) was destroyed by the 2009 Costa Rica earthquake, which left 25 people dead and five missing.

San Miguel Los Lotes was buried by a pyroclastic flow during the 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption on 3 June 2018.

Plymouth was once the seat of government in Montserrat, and home to around 4,000 people, until it was almost completely destroyed by the Soufrière Hills volcano in 1997. The entire southern half of the island is now off limits, leaving over 30 villages and towns abandoned.

L'Île aux Marins ("Sailor's Island") is a ghost town/island located a few miles away from the island of Saint Pierre. Once inhabited by over 600 fishermen, families and tradesmen, the island was progressively abandoned until the last inhabitant left in 1965. The island is now a tourist attraction.

Denniston was a coal mining town in the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand. Formerly with a population of around 1400, it now has about ten residents. Hardwicke was the sole European settlement in the Auckland Islands, founded in 1849 but abandoned in 1851. Jamestown was a settlement in what is now Fiordland National Park. Kelso was abandoned after severe and repeated flooding in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lyell was a gold mining town in the Buller Gorge in the South Island. Macetown was a gold rush town in Central Otago that started to decline during the 20th century. Nenthorn was an Otago gold mining town from 1888 until the 1890s, abandoned when its mining efforts collapsed. Only two ruined buildings and the remains of a battery remain. Port Craig is a former logging township on the southwest coast of the South Island. Port Molyneux was a port at the mouth of the Clutha River in Otago. After a flood caused the river mouth to move, the town was abandoned. Port Pegasus was a township on the south coast of Stewart Island in southern New Zealand. Rotowaro, a coal mining town, was removed in the 1980s to make way for an opencast mine. It is the site of the now abandoned Rotowaro Carbonisation Plant. Te Hutewai was a very small farming community located around 10 km south of Raglan, in the Waikato District. A school was built but was burnt down in the 1960s and the area today is now farmland. Te Wairoa, also called "The Buried Village", was a small Māori village that was destroyed by the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. Venture, a small beech bark processing settlement in the Awaroa Inlet of the Abel Tasman National Park, was abandoned as the value of the bark declined and the cost of transport increased into the remote area. The remains of the foundations of the school house and assorted buildings remain in the bush today, although fire, time and the encroachment of the bush has rendered the ruins little more than a collection of stones and bricks. The settlement can only be reached by walking up a rarely used and poorly maintained track at low tide. The settlement and track are on the estate administered by the Department of Conservation. Waiuta was a gold mining town in the West Coast Region of the South Island of New Zealand until 1951.

The small lakeside resort town of Villa Epecuén was abandoned on 10 November 1985, after a series of heavy rains caused the lake water levels to rise and flood the town. The remains of the town re emerged on 11 May 2013, when the waters of the lake receded.

The small village of Caraíbas, in the municipality of Itacarambi, suffered a rare earthquake in the early morning of 9 December 2007. It measured 4.9 on the Richter scale. Located over a geological fault, the village of 76 families was evacuated and has been abandoned ever since. Fordlândia was established by American industrialist Henry Ford in 1928 near Santarém. This was done to mass produce natural rubber. Built in inadequate terrain, designed with no knowledge of tropical agriculture, and managed with little regard for local culture, the enterprise was an absolute failure; in 1934, the Ford factory was relocated to Belterra, but ultimately closed down in 1945.

Chaitén is a small city in southern Chile that was heavily damaged by a volcanic eruption. Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries that have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. La Noria, a deserted mining town in the Atacama Desert. The infamous Atacama skeleton was found at La Noria. Port Famine (lang es) is possibly Chile's oldest ghost town. It was founded in the Strait of Magellan in 1584 by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Starvation and the cold climate killed all of the inhabitants. The English navigator Sir Thomas Cavendish landed at the site in 1587. He found only ruins of the settlement, and renamed the place "Port Famine". Sewell is a former mining town that was once home to at least 14,000 people.

Armero was left in ruins by a volcanic eruption in 1985 that killed over 20,000 inhabitants. Survivors of the tragedy left for other towns, and Armero is currently unpopulated. Bojayá is a small town in the Chocó department, that was attacked by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on May 2, 2002. Most of the inhabitants hid in the church; A FARC mortar bomb landed in the building, killing approximately 140 people, including 40 children. Today, Bojayá is a ghost town and though plans have been made to rebuild it, it will not be on the exact location of the massacre. Gramalote, a town in Norte de Santander Department, was abandoned due to massive mudslides brought by flooding near the area. San Cayetano was permanently evacuated in 1999 as a result of a geological fault. Rebuilt in 2002 in a new location. Sativanorte was abandoned in 1933 after the land sinking. The population was rebuilt in a new location the following year. es, a town in Cundinamarca, was abandoned in 1998.
es district of Santa Fe de Antioquia had to be abandoned due to geological instability, it was later rebuilt near its original location. es was a small town in the department of Vichada, it was the first capital of the department. Santa María la Antigua del Darién, initially founded by Spanish conquistadors, but was abandoned later.

Guisanbourg was the former administrative centre of what is now Régina. The discovery of gold in 1855, lead to its demise, and in the mid 1980s, the last citizen left the town.

Ituni, a former bauxite mining town in decline since the mines closed. Jonestown was established in the 1970s by members of the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, Jones orchestrated a mass suicide, resulting in the death of 913 of Jonestown's 1,110 inhabitants. The town now stands in ruins, and is being slowly reclaimed by the jungle. Mango Landing, a periodically waning gold mining town in the contested Essequibo region.

Machu Picchu was built during the Inca Empire and is now a popular tourist site.

Carmen de Uria, destroyed in 1999 during the Vargas flooding. Congo Mirador, a "floating village" suspended on Lake Maracaibo. La Cristinas, a gold mining town. Maracaibo, once a thriving city in Zulia. Though retaining a substantial population, the city's infrastructure has collapsed in economic ruination. Potosí was a Venezuelan town in the western state of Táchira. The town was deliberately flooded by the Venezuelan government in 1985 to build a hydroelectric dam. In 2010, the town was uncovered for the first time since its flooding due to a drought caused by the weather phenomenon called El Niño.