Nazca Lines
Peru · rock art site · 14°41'51.0"S 75°08'06.0"W
Nazca Lines is a rock art site in Peru, large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-071410 at -14.69750, -75.13500 (14°41'51.0"S 75°08'06.0"W).
Wikidata records a construction date of 199 BCE.
Recorded heritage designations: World Heritage Site, cultural heritage of Peru.
There are 22 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 43 within 25 km and 53 within 50 km. That density is itself the finding: this is not an isolated monument but part of a worked landscape.
Open on the mapThe episode
Narration uses a synthetic clone of Farhad Aghapour's own voice. The data and the analysis are from the Pyramason atlas.
The record
| Pyramason ID | PYR-071410 |
|---|---|
| Country | Peru |
| Classified as | rock art site |
| Coordinates | -14.69750, -75.13500 |
| 14°41'51.0"S 75°08'06.0"W | |
| Sites within 25 km | 43 |
| Sites within 50 km | 53 |
The shirt
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What is around it
- Nazca Mushroom geoglyph0.1 km
- Nazca cactus geoglyph0.9 km
- Nazca Condor Geoglyph0.9 km
- Nazca Small Spiral geoglyph0.9 km
- Nazca Dog geoglyph1.1 km
- Nazca Monkey geoglyph1.1 km
- Nazca Star geoglyph1.3 km
- Nazca Spider geoglyph1.4 km
- Nazca Seaweed geoglyph1.6 km
- Nazca Hummingbird geoglyph1.6 km
Updates from the atlas
Further reading
English Wikipedia · Wikidata Q2620036
Nearby on the atlas
- All catalogued pages in Perucountry hub
Distances are great-circle, from the coordinates Pyramason holds for each site.