🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Este Avenues Geoglyphs (Eastern Approach Corridor)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan
Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.
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🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan
Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Late Intermediate–Late Horizon 1300–1540 CE · Atacameño (Likan Antai)
Atacameño clifftop fortress above Rio Grande with 4 km walls and 1540 Spanish battle site.
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
Archaic to Late Intermediate 5000 BCE–1500 CE · Chango-Chinchorro maritime
Coastal Changos maritime promise rock art and 4 m shell mounds on Atacama sea cliff, 5000 BCE–1500 CE.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate 900–1450 CE · Atacameño / Pica-Tarapacá culture influenced by Tiwanaku
World's largest anthropomorphic geoglyph: 119-m hill figure marking caravan trails.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Rapa Nui Period 900–1500 CE; ahu construction 1000–1600 CE · Rapa Nui (Polynesian)
Remote Polynesian island 3,700 km west of Chile with nearly 900 basalt moai monoliths (up to 10 m, 86 t, one unfinished 270 t) carved 900–1500 CE at Rano Raraku tuff quarry and erected on stone ahu…
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
900–1500 CE · Rapa Nui
Cross-ref quarry within Rapa Nui National Park main entry; tuff quarry with 400 moai in situ including El Gigante (~21 m).