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    around the area. Located in the Jumana Pampas, Nazca Desert in Ica. The Nazca Lines (Líneas de Nazca) are ancient geoglyphs composed of several hundred...
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  • fortresses of the various cultures of ancient Peru, such as the Moche and Nazca. The sites vary in importance from small local sites to UNESCO World Heritage...
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  • Giuseppe Orefici (category Nazca culture)
    archaeologist noted for his studies of the Pre-Hispanic civilizations of the Nazca and Rapa Nui cultures. Orefici has a degree in architecture. Since 1982...
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    Toribio Mejía Xesspe (category Nazca Lines)
    Peruvian archaeologist and student of Julio César Tello. He discovered the Nazca Lines in 1926 or 1927. Mejía Xesspe was born in Toro, a district of the...
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    Broad Front, and Free Peru. Leonila Martina Portocarrero Ramos was born in Nazca, Peru, on 29 September 1949. In 1970, she entered the Universidad Nacional...
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    the area of Pusharo, he also discovered geoglyphs that are similar to the Nazca lines. According to Jamin this evidence demonstrates an Inca presence in...
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    Johan Reinhard (category Nazca Lines)
    investigations have led him to present theories to explain the mystery of the Nazca Lines (the giant desert drawings), pre-Hispanic ceremonial sites built on...
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    at other sites nearby. The spiral shape is also reflected in the famous Nazca Lines (monkey geoglyph). It is the shape of the snail, or Spondylus, of...
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    legitimizes several reproductions of the Nazca lines, the main focus of Reiche's research in Peru. Among the Nazca formations that have been reproduced through...
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    extends from Peru to Chile which was formed mostly by subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath South America. Volcanic activity commenced in the APVC about...
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    p. 112. García Sáiz & Jiménez Villalba 2009, p. 91. "Vasija Nazca". Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. García Sáiz, Mª Concepción; Jiménez Villalba, Félix...
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    resulting from the release of mechanical stress between the subducting Nazca plate and South American plate on the Peru–Chile Trench, off the coast of...
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    Inca, Nazca, Chincha, Wari and Paracas. The museum includes Inca utensils, Paracas textiles, Nazca ceramics as well as a miniature model of the Nazca lines...
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    Moche co-existed with the Ica-Nazca culture in the south. They are thought to have had some limited contact with the Ica-Nazca because they later mined guano...
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    on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2021. "Mayas". Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Archived from the original...
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  • the 7th century CE, the urban cultures of the Moche in Lambayeque and the Nazca in the Río Grande valley in Ica emerged. Both cultures are notable for their...
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    from 1994 to 2019, was honored with the "Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura" award by the Ministry of Culture of Peru in January 2020. This award acknowledged...
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  • before even the Inca period. Scientific research into remains left by the Nazca and Mochica peoples has shown the existence of complex theoretical musical...
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    the Inca Trail, p. 51 Camino Inka. Instituto Nactional de Cultura. Direccion Regional de Cultura Cuzco. Parque Arqueologic National de Machu Picchu. Ley...
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    Chico (PDF), Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino Cornely, F.L. (1952), "Cultura diaguita–chilena" (PDF), Revista Chilena de Historia Natural (in Spanish)...
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    Guatemala] (PDF) (in Spanish). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. OCLC 277021068. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July...
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    up Jewish in Mexico include Novia que te vea and its sequel Hisho que te Nazca. During the early 20th century, Jewish immigrants started a large number...
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    Wikipedia article at [[:es:Cultura del Diquís]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Cultura del Diquís}} to the talk...
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    (especially in Lima, Callao, and in the provinces of Cañete, Chincha, Pisco, and Nazca).[citation needed] The highest concentration of Afro-Peruvians in the country...
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  • diferencia entre los teenek (huaxtecos) de Veracruz", in UNAM, Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. 23. Campbell, L. and T. Kaufman. 1985. "Maya linguistics: Where...
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    Quetzalcóatl, Fondo de Cultura Económica. Séjourné, Laurette (1966) Arqueología de Teotihuacán, la cerámica, Fondo de Cultura Económica. Séjourné, Laurette...
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    Moche: hacia el final del milenio: Actas del Segundo Coloquio sobre la Cultura Moche, Trujillo, 1 al 7 de agosto de 1999 (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Lima: Pontificia...
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    the following: Nos inclinamos a creer que la decapitación ritual en la cultura Tolita, más que una práctica real pudo pertenecer al ámbito mitológico...
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    species that also inhabit the Galapagos like the blue and red-footed booby, nazca booby, frigatebirds, albatross, pelican and other seabirds that are nesting...
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    felines (popular in the Chavin culture) and geometric patterns found in the Nazca style of ceramics. In a culture without a written language, ceramics portrayed...
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