The area of Nazca in Peru is of course most famous for the ancient lines and geoglyphs attributed to the Nazca people. However, the area is far more historically complex than that. The system of etchings in the the ground start to the northwest at Paracas, on the coast, where the huge geoglyph called the Candelabro is located.

Traveling in a southwest direction from this spot, you encounter hundreds of other geoglyphs in the area near the town of Palpa, which is in between Paracas and Nazca.

For example, the above photo is what is commonly called the Mandala, which, along with the hundreds of other geoglyphs in the area were created by the Paracas people, hundreds of years before the Nazca culture ever existed.

No one knows for sure where the Paracas came from. The royal family of these people had elongated heads, and likely genetically red hair. It is presumed by the author that they were in fact exterminated by the Nazca, who entered Paracas lands about 100 AD after their crops began failing.

It is likely that the Nazca continued the earlier work of the Paracas, creating such geoglyphs as the Hummingbird seen above. As the Nazca were not as adept as the Paracas as regarding agriculture, they disappeared from the area about 600 AD. Learn more about the Paracas, Nazca, and Puquio well system with the following book:

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