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Nazca Peru Geoglyphs

From the sky the hummingbird monkey frigate bird giant bird and spider are clearly visible.

Nazca peru geoglyphs. It is important to mention that there are no regular commercial flights only small planes that can be rented. The discovery of the giant cat geoglyph can help experts to better understand the earlier cultures contribution to the nazca lines which were only rediscovered in the early 20th century. Geoglyphs are usually constructed from strong natural material such as stone and are notably large in scale.

They were created between 500 bce and 500 ce by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor removing pebbles and leaving differently colored dirt exposed. Declared a world heritage site by unesco these geoglyphs traced onto the surface of the desert measure up to 300 meters in length and their messages remain undeciphered. Also referred to as the nasca lines they are more accurately called geoglyphs which are designs formed on the earth.

About 7 hours by land from lima approximately. These geoglyphs are located in the jumana pampas in the nazca desert between the towns of nazca and palpa in the department of ica peru. The mysterious peruvian geoglyphs cover an area of 7535847 hectares and there are thousands of lines and images cut into the dry and sandy soil.

The nazca also spelled nasca lines are geoglyphs located in an arid coastal area of peru that cover an estimated 170 square miles 450 square kilometers. The geoglyphs date from 100 bc. The nasca lines remain an unsolved mystery.

Located in the desert on the south coast of peru the nasca geoglyphs are among the worlds largest drawings. Calling it a nazca line however appears to be something of a misnomer. The nazca lines naezk are a group of very large geoglyphs made in the soil of the nazca desert in southern peru.

The key to understanding one recently rediscovered geoglyph however lies in much smaller works of art. Scratched on the ground they number in. At the time just 30 geoglyphs.

300 and range in size from about 16 to 330 feet. The new geoglyphs join an existing collection of mysterious drawings in peru known as the nazca lines. A feline that measures some 37 metres across.

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