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The
Nazca Desert is a high plateau about sixty miles long and five miles
wide on the coast of Peru, some 250 miles south of Lima.
On the Nazca plateau there is a collection geoglyphs, drawings on
plateau basin and surrounding mountains, that can only be defined from a high altitude, and
cannot be distinguished from the ground. These lines are laid out across the
plateau for more than 800 miles. Some of the lines extend for 12
miles. There are many lines, objects, and several kinds of figures,
such as fish, birds, monkeys, a whale, spiders and
plants. Since these
lines are on a flat surface and its climate is extremely dry, nearly
all geoglyphs remain completely intact |