Nazca Lines (geoglyphs)
The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru
- Also known as: “géoglyphes de Nasca”, “Las líneas y geoglifos de Nazca y de Pampas de Jumana”, “lignes de Nazca”, “líneas de Nasca”, “Lineas de Nazca”, “línies de Nasca”, “Linji ta‘ Nasca”, “Llinellau Nacsa”, “Nasca”, “Nasca lines”, “Nasca-Linien”, “Nazca lines”, “Nazca Lines”, “ray roads (Nazca)”, and “Γραμμές της Νάσκα”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Monkey and Dog.
Nazca Lines (geoglyphs)
- Categories: geoglyph, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: El Ingenio District, Nasca Province, Ica, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-14.72442° or 14° 43′ 28″ south
Longitude
-75.14648° or 75° 8′ 47″ west
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
Open location code
57Q67VG3+6C
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Nazca Lines (geoglyphs)” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nazca-lyne”
- Albanian: “Vijat e Nazkas”
- Arabic: “خطوط نازكا”
- Armenian: “Նասկայի գեոգլիֆներ”
- Asturian: “Llinies de Nazca”
- Aymara: “lines cheveres”
- Azerbaijani: “Naska xətləri”
- Basque: “Nazca eta Pampas de Jumanako lerro eta geoglifoak”
- Basque: “Nazcako lerroak”
- Belarusian: “Геогліфы Наскі”
- Bengali: “নাজকা রেখাসমূহ”
- Bulgarian: “Знаци в Наска”
- Catalan: “línies de Nazca”
- Catalan: “Línies de Nazca”
- Central Bikol: “Mga Gurit Nazca”
- Chinese: “纳斯卡线条”
- Croatian: “Nazca linije”
- Czech: “obrazce na planině Nazca”
- Czech: “Obrazce na planině Nazca”
- Danish: “Nazca-linjerne”
- Dutch: “Nazcalijnen”
- Esperanto: “Nazca-linioj”
- Esperanto: “Nazka-linioj”
- Estonian: “Nazca geoglüüfid”
- Estonian: “Nazca laam”
- Finnish: “Nazcan linjat”
- French: “géoglyphes de Nazca”
- French: “Géoglyphes de Nazca”
- Galician: “Liñas de Nazca”
- Georgian: “ნასკას ხაზები”
- German: “Nazca-Linien”
- Greek: “Γραμμές Νάσκα”
- Greek: “Γραμμές της Νάζκα”
- Hebrew: “קווי נסקה”
- Hungarian: “Nazca-vonalak”
- Indonesian: “Garis-garis Nazca”
- Italian: “Linee di Nazca”
- Japanese: “ナスカの地上絵”
- Kazakh: “Наска сызықтары”
- Korean: “나스카 지상화”
- Korean: “나스카 평원”
- Kurdish: “Xetên Nazca”
- Latvian: “Naskas līnijas”
- Lithuanian: “Naskos piešiniai”
- Luxembourgish: “Nazca-Linnen”
- Macedonian: “Наска линии”
- Macedonian: “Наскански линии”
- Malagasy: “Tsipika Nazca”
- Malay: “Garisan Nazca”
- Malayalam: “നാസ്ക വരകൾ”
- Maltese: “Linja ta‘ Nazca”
- Maltese: “Linji ta’ Nazca”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nazcalinjene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nazcalinjene”
- Norwegian: “Nazcalinjene”
- Oriya: “ନାଜ୍କା ରେଖା”
- Persian: “خطوط نازکا”
- Polish: “Rysunki z Nazca”
- Portuguese: “Linhas de Nasca”
- Portuguese: “Linhas e Geóglifos de Nasca e das Pampas de Jumana”
- Quechua: “Naska siq’ikuna”
- Romanian: “Liniile Nazca”
- Russian: “Геоглифы Наски”
- Scots: “Nazca Lines”
- Serbian: “Наска линије”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Naskanske linije”
- Slovenian: “črte Nazca”
- Spanish: “Líneas de Nazca”
- Sundanese: “Géoglif Nazka”
- Swedish: “Nascalinjerna”
- Tamil: “நசுகா கோடுகள்”
- Tamil: “நாசுகா கோடுகள்”
- Thai: “เส้นนัซกา”
- Turkish: “Nazca çizgileri”
- Udmurt: “Наскаысь геоглифъёс”
- Ukrainian: “Геогліфи Наски”
- Urdu: “ناسکا لکیریں”
- Vietnamese: “Những hình vẽ trên cao nguyên Nazca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mga bagis ha Nazca”
- Welsh: “Llinellau Nacza”
- Western Armenian: “Նազքայի «Գծագրութիւնները»”
- Wu Chinese: “纳斯卡巨画”
- “Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa”
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