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  Nazca Lines and Culture - Crystalinks
The Nazca Lines are located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the pampa (a large flat area of southern Peru).
The Nazca plain is virtually unique for its ability to preserve the markings upon it, due to the combination of the climate (one of the driest on Earth, with only twenty minutes of rainfall per year) and the flat, stony ground which minimises the effect of the wind at ground level.
In general, Nazca culture is considered to consist of three stages; Early, Middle, and Late stages, and also the Classic Nazca (approximately A.D. One of the most famous and distinctive features of the Nazca culture is the polychrome pottery which has attracted attention because of its technological refinement and the exciting symbolism of its motifs.
www.crystalinks.com /nasca.html   (3550 words)

  
  Nazca lines
The area of the Nazca art is called the Pampa Colorada (Red Plain).
If Nazca was an alien airfield, it must have been a very confusing airfield, consisting as it does of giant lizards, spiders, monkeys, llamas, dogs, hummingbirds, etc., not to mention the zigzagging and crisscrossing lines and geometric designs.
The Nazca lines became of interest to anthropologists after they were seen from the air in the 1930s.
www.skepdic.com /nazca.html   (1112 words)

  
 Ballestas Islands - Nazca Lines Tour - Amazing Peru, paracas, nazcalines, Travel to South America, Peru, Inca trail
This engraving has nothing to the do with the Nazca Lines but is thought to be an old pirate warning over two centuries old.
In the afternoon, transfer to the bus terminal for the royal class bus to Nazca (about 3 hours).
The flight over the Nazca Lines is also included.
www.amazingperu.com /peru/peru_tours/add_on_tours_extensions/paracas_ballestasislands_nazcalines.asp   (630 words)

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