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Excavation ongoing places matching “Atacama”

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🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Atacama Giant

Late Intermediate 900–1450 CE · Atacameño / Pica-Tarapacá culture influenced by Tiwanaku

World's largest anthropomorphic geoglyph: 119-m hill figure marking caravan trails.

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🇨🇱 Chile · Hydraulic works

Pica Oasis Socavones and Geoglyphs

Formative to Modern (Alto Ramírez to Colonial) · Tarapacá / Pica-Tarapacá / Hispanic oasis

Pica (1,350 m, 20°29′21″S 69°19′46″W) is the only living oasis of the Atacama with active filtration galleries (socavones) tapping the Pica Aquifer; study by Lictevout et al.