Nazca lines
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Discovered in 1930
Scattered over 500 square km
Contains over 50 “geoglyphs”
Over 1,300 km straight lines
300 geometric shapes4
These geometrical forms include straight lines, triangles, spirals, circles, trapezoid and depiction of animals and plants
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“Pampas” - Desert with little wind covered with black wind-smoothed rock
Lines were created by removing the black fragments and topsoil
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The Nazca lines can be as narrow as 6 inches and as wide as hundreds of yards.
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One of the most famous geoglyphs
Lines are formed by one continuous line
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These two Nazca Lines are intersecting because they share a common point.
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Wedge-like
This trapezoid has sides that are 2,500 ft long
Its sides run parallel for about 5 miles
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Space craft landing
Population control systems
Running footraces
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