🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inca road system
The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and in Quechua: Qhapaq Ñan meaning "royal road") was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and in Quechua: Qhapaq Ñan meaning "royal road") was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
🇻🇪 Venezuela · Rock art
Caicara del Orinoco is a town in, and the administrative seat of, Cedeño Municipality, Bolívar State, Venezuela. Currently the Venezuelan government is building a bridge across the Orinoco at Caicara.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (also known as Camino Inca or Camino Inka) is a hiking trail in Peru that terminates at Machu Picchu.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Carachupa (Quechua for opossum) is an archaeological site with rock art in Peru. It is located near the village of Carachupa, in Lonya Grande District, region of Amazonas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Chawaytiri (Hispanicized Chahuaytire, Chahuaytiri) is an archaeological site with rock paintings in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Intipanawin or Intipa Ñawin (Quechua inti sun, ñawi eye, -pa, -n suffixes, "eye of the sun", also spelled Intipanawin) is an archaeological site and the name of a mountain with rock paintings in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Jinkiori or Jingkiori is an archaeological site consisting of petroglyphs engraved in a big rock called the “Monolith of Jinkiori". It is located in Paucartambo Province, region of Cusco, Peru.
🇦🇶 Antarctica · Archaeological wonder
Claimed 12k BCE temperate Antarctica Atlantis; literature 1958–1995 · Claimed global Atlantean cartographers; literary Hapgood–Einstein crustal displacement
Hapgood's 1958 crust-shift Atlantis under Antarctic ice — Piri Reis 1513 map misread as ice-free coast.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Megalith
The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun (in older literature simply called "(great) monolithic Gateway of Ak-kapana"), is a monolithic gateway at the site of Tiahuanaco, built by…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Cave
Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Painted Rock Cave), is an archaeological site in northern Brazil with evidence of human presence dating ca. 11,200 years ago.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Cave
Gruta del Indio is a rock shelter located in Rincón del Atuel, Southern Mendoza, Argentina. The site is located 28 km south of the town of San Rafael at around 660m above sea level.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Intihuatana (possibly from in the Quechua spelling Inti Watana or Intiwatana), at the archaeological site of Machu Picchu, is a notable ritual stone associated with the astronomic clock or calendar…
🇨🇱 Chile · Archaeological wonder
Chan-Chan is an archaeological site and beach on the coast of the commune of Mehuín in southern Chile.