Salar de Llamara Geoglyphs

Fields of large-scale linear and geometric geoglyphs etched into dark algal-crusted margins of Salar de Llamara at the southern terminus of the Pampa del Tamarugal. Unlike Pintados' hillside figures, Llamara's 80+ motifs are horizontal floor geoglyphs: 10-35 m diamonds, stepped fret, circles and arrow-panels scraped through nitrate crust to expose white halite. Eight calibrated C14 ages on encrusted hearths place construction 1000-1350 CE within Pica-Charcollo florescence linking Loa copper to Arica.

2-km straight cleared road flanked by 2-m cairn waymarks, indicating Llamara as caravan staging node before crossing the salt flat. The salt substrate preserves footpaths and llama coprolite, rare organic proof of caravan function.