Nazca lines

The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern . 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.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru
  • Also known as: “Lineas de Nasca”, “Nasca lines”, “Nazca Lines”, and “ray roads (Nazca)”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Condor and Dog.

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Nazca lines

Latitude
-14.6986° or 14° 41′ 55″ south
Longitude
-75.13125° or 75° 7′ 53″ west
Open location code
57Q68V29+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5794199498
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q2620036
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Nazca lines” 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 Nasca”
  • 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”
  • Danish: “Nazca-linjerne”
  • Dutch: “Nazcalijnen”
  • Esperanto: “Nazca-linioj”
  • Esperanto: “Nazka-linioj”
  • Estonian: “Nazca geoglüüfid”
  • Estonian: “Nazca laam”
  • Finnish: “Nazcan linjat”
  • French: “géoglyphes de Nasca”
  • French: “géoglyphes de Nazca”
  • French: “Géoglyphes de Nazca”
  • French: “lignes de Nazca”
  • Galician: “Liñas de Nazca”
  • Georgian: “ნასკას ხაზები”
  • German: “Nasca-Linien”
  • German: “Nazca-Linien”
  • Greek: “Γραμμές Νάσκα”
  • Greek: “Γραμμές της Νάζκα”
  • Greek: “Γραμμές της Νάσκα”
  • Hebrew: “קווי נסקה”
  • Hungarian: “Nasca vonalak”
  • 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‘ Nasca”
  • 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: “Las líneas y geoglifos de Nazca y de Pampas de Jumana”
  • Spanish: “líneas de Nasca”
  • Spanish: “Lineas de 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 Nacsa”
  • 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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