Nazca

American

[nahs-kah, -kuh] / ˈnɑs kɑ, -kə /

Or Nasca

adjective

of or relating to a pre-Incan culture of SW Peru, dating from c200 b.c., characterized by polychrome pottery and the employment of irrigation techniques in agriculture.

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One friend jokingly asked if he was drawing the Nazca lines across the city, but Papas wrote it off as just trying to clock extra mileage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Dozens of small planes operate from the airport in Pisco, handling a large volume of primarily foreign tourists hoping to visit the Nazca Lines.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

The Gofar fault is a deep underwater fracture where the Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates slide past one another at roughly 140 millimeters per year, about as fast as fingernails grow.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026

Peru is home to many of the Americas' most significant archaeological discoveries, including the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Andes and the mysterious Nazca Lines etched into the desert along the central coast.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

What were the Nazca thinking as they created them?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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