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Coordinates: 14°43′00″S 75°08′00″W / -14.716667, -75.133333

Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca and Pampas de Jumana*
UNESCO World Heritage Site

State Party	Peru
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, iii, iv
Reference	700
Region**	Latin America and the Caribbean
Inscription history
Inscription	1994 (18th Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. ** Region as classified by UNESCO.

The Nazca lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 80 km (50 miles) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. They are believed to have been created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and AD 700. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, llamas, and lizards.

The lines are shallow designs in the ground where the reddish pebbles that cover the surrounding landscape have been removed, revealing the whitish earth underneath. Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes, and more than seventy are natural or human figures. The largest are over 200m across. Scholars differ in interpreting what the lines were for but generally ascribe religious significance to them. The dry, windless, stable climate of the plateau has preserved the lines to this day.

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