Lágrimas de Cristal

**Lágrimas de Cristal** (Portugese: **Crystal Tears**) is a fictional location from the *Jungle Cruise*.

## Description

Lágrimas de Cristal is a location within the Amazon rainforest. The region was Indigenous home of the Puka Michuna tribe.

### Points of interest

* **Puka Michuna territory**:
* **Tears of the Moon temple**:
* **Ucayali Cove**:

## History

### Background

#### Lope de Aguirre

Other Indigenous peoples would include the Puka Michuna, sacred guardians of the Tree of Life which had a flower called, "The Tears of the Moon" which cured all ailments when bloomed under a blood moon. In 1556, the Puka Michuna found a small group of conquistadors, which consisted of Lope de Aguirre, Sancho, Melchor, Gonzalo and Francisco Lopez de Heredia, on the verge of death in the jungle. The Puka Michuna nursed the Spaniards back to health using the Tears of the Moon.

Aguirre, who was searching for the Tears to save his terminally ill daughter, demanded the Puka Michuna Chief to give him the sacred Arrowhead and take him to the Tree of Life, but he refused. In anger, Aguirre stabbed the Chief, fatally wounding him. In his last breath, the Chief cursed Aguirre and all of his conquistadors so they could never leave sight of the river again, or the jungle would take them back to it for all eternity.

#### Hunt for the Tree of Life

On the April 8th of 1911, Dr. Albert Falls established the *Jungle Navigation Company* which frequented the Amazon. Also in 1911, portions of the Amazon's rivers of adventure were mapped by Francisco Lopez de Heredia (now going by the name Frank Wolff) and given as a gift to Dr. Albert Falls. Wolff himself would be employed by the Jungle Navigation Company by around this time, running charlatanizeid, "Jungle Cruise" riverboat tours through the rivers that used actors and crude machines resembling animals.

Prior to 1916, Dr. Albert Falls was member of the *Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society*, a misogynistic imperial society. From this society, Dr. Albert Falls lead an expedition in the Amazon rainforest to try and find the mythical Tree of Life and claim its flower-petals, "The Tears of the Moon". This expedition was unsuccessful though he did steal the sacred arrowhead from the Indigenous Puka Michuna tribe and return it to the English society, believing it to be the key to locating the tree.

In 1916, the spearhead was stolen by adventurer Lily Houghton and her brother MacGregor Houghton. The two travelled to the Amazon in pursuit of the Tears of the Moon though they did so in competition with Prince Joachim of Prussia, the youngest son of German Kaiser Wilhelm II who desired the flower to win World War I. The Houghtons travelled to Porto Velho where they hired Francisco Lopez (now going by the name of Frank Wolff), captain of the *Jungle Navigation Company* boat *La Quila*. The Houghtons were pursued by Prince Joachim in his submarine who joined forces with the remainder of the cursed conquistadors.

Frank and Puka Michuna tribe chieftain, "Trader Sam" (a separate character from the aforementioned magic-user) joined forces with Frank to overpower Lily and MacGregor to recover the stolen arrowhead and break Frank's curse.'

## Appearances

### Film

#### Jungle Cruise

La Lágrimas de Cristal is sought after by the Houghton siblings in their 1916 expedition.

### Attractions

#### Jungle Cruise

The map made by Frank Wolff and used by Lily to located Lágrimas de Cristal has been framed in both the Jungle Navigation Company's boathouse in the Lost Delta of India and in the Amazon in the year 1938.

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2021/08/photos-new-trophy-wall-alberta-falls-and-map-murals-added-to-jungle-cruise-queue-at-the-magic-kingdom/