Nazca Lines

The Nazca Lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. 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.

Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. The individual figurative geoglyph designs measure between 400 and 1,100 metres across. The combined length of all the lines is over 1,300 km, and the group covers an area of about 50 km2.Read more