Verified places tagged “geoglyph”

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🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph

Quebrada Santo Domingo Geoglyphs

Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)

40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Chiza Valley Geoglyphs

Late Intermediate San Miguel-Gentilar · Tarapaca-Arica-Altiplano caravan continuum

70+ Chiza quebrada geoglyphs (800-1300 CE) with 25-m marine fish 90 km inland, encoding coast-mountain ideology.

🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph

Bouse Fisherman Intaglio (Fisherman Geoglyph)

Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)

9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.

🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph

Chaviña Pampa South Sector Geoglyphs (Quebrada Chaviña Sur)

Nasca-Huari Transition to Middle Horizon · Huarpa–Wari (Lucanas)

Chaviña south pampa: 20 spiral/camelid figures on Lucanas ignimbrite fan at 3,280 m.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Azapa Alto de Azapa Geoglyphs (Upper Azapa Precordillera)

Early Formative Alto Ramírez I–II · Alto Ramírez upper-valley

Upper Azapa precordillera: 18 steep-slope figures at 980 m marking valley bottleneck to highlands.

🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph

Pampa de Majes Geoglyphs

Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Majes valley

35+ broad trapezoidal geoglyphs (600-900 CE) on Pampa de Majes with 600-m highways converging on cairn huacas.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Geoglifos de Pintados

Late Formative to Late Intermediate (700–1500 CE) · Atacameño, Tarapacá and Altiplano caravan cultures

400 Atacama caravan geoglyphs (700–1500 CE) etched in desert varnish above the Tamarugal pampa.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Salar del Sur North Pampa Geoglyphs (Pampa Salar Sur Norte)

Late Intermediate (Atacama Tarapacá) · Atacameño (Likan Antai) caravan

Salar del Sur north pampa: 24 geometric avenues on Antofagasta deflation plain toward Tulán.

🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph

Palpa Lines and Geoglyphs

Paracas (800–200 BCE) to Topará (200 BCE–200 CE) to early Nazca · Paracas and Topará–Nazca

1,000 hill-crest geoglyphs (1000 BCE–800 CE) — the Paracas predecessor to Nazca on Palpa terraces.

🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph

Chaviña Pampa North Ridge Geoglyphs (Cerro Chaviña Norte)

Early Nasca to Wari · Nasca–Huarpa–Wari

Chaviña north ridge: 15 crest lines on 3,420 m hilltop with solstice-aligned avenue.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Salar del Sur Este Avenues Geoglyphs (Eastern Approach Corridor)

Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan

Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.

🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph

Sajama Lines Secondary

Formative to Late Horizon 100–1532 CE (Inca road overlay) Sajama unknown chronology · High Altiplano pastoral (Sajama culture, pre-Inca to Inca)

Secondary network of Sajama Lines — largest geoglyph on Earth (16,000 km total): radial straight lines 2 m wide scraped to light soil converging on raised chullpa-shrine islands, visible only from…

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Atacama Giant

Late Intermediate 900–1450 CE · Atacameño / Pica-Tarapacá culture influenced by Tiwanaku

World's largest anthropomorphic geoglyph: 119-m hill figure marking caravan trails.

🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph

Blythe Intaglios

Late Prehistoric 1000–1500 CE (OSL), possibility Protohistoric · Mojave/Quechan; Patayan culture

Mojave giant desert figures: 50-m human intaglios above Colorado River.

🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph

Nazca Lines

Early Intermediate Period, Paracas to Nazca culture · Paracas / Nazca

Over 300 geometric and figurative geoglyphs etched by removing dark desert pavement to reveal light subsoil across 450 km² of arid Pampas, including 1.8 km hummingbird, monkey, spider, and trapezoids…

🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph

Acre Geoglyphs (Geoglifos do Acre)

Pre-Columbian 1–1500 CE · Acre / Xinguano tradition

Hundreds of large ditched enclosures (squares, circles, U-shapes) revealed since 1977 by deforestation, built by pre-Columbian Amazonian cultures using forest clearance, dated 1–1500 CE, associated…