Nazca desierto
The Nazca lines are geometric patterns, curvilinear animal, insect and human figures located in the Nazca Desert, on a high arid plateau. They were created by the Nazca culture between 200BC-600AD by removing the iron oxide coated pebbles which cover the surface of the desert. The desert is one of the driest on earth and maintains a yearly temperature of around 77°F.
The Nazca lines cannot be recognized as coherent figures except from the air. The lines were first noticed in the modern era when airplanes began flying over the Peruvian desert in the 1920s. 
One theory contends that Ancient Indians conducted walking rituals on these giant drawings to thank the gods and to ensure that water would continue to flow from the Andes, which ties in with the extensive network of underground canals and waterways found dating from the same period.
[The hummingbird 'pájaro del tarareo' and monkey 'mono' by Dr Maria Reiche, 1953 [©]]
(Lectures at the Maria Reiche Planetarium, Nazca Lines Hotel, Nazca)
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