🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Cerro Unita Giant
Late Intermediate Pica-Tarapaca 900-1450 CE · Tarapaca caravan and Pica oasis
86-m Atacama anthropomorphic giant (900-1450 CE) on Cerro Unita, largest prehistoric figure in Americas.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Tiliviche Geoglyphs (Quebrada de Tiliviche)
Late Intermediate (Arica / Tarapacá) · Tarapacá / Arica caravan tradition
Westernmost Tarapacá geoglyph cluster on the southern flank of Quebrada Tiliviche (1,070 m), 2 km west of the Pan-American bridge. Camiña commune.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Palpa Lines and Geoglyphs
Paracas (800–200 BCE) to Topará (200 BCE–200 CE) to early Nazca · Paracas and Topará–Nazca
1,000 hill-crest geoglyphs (1000 BCE–800 CE) — the Paracas predecessor to Nazca on Palpa terraces.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar de Huasco East Ridge Geoglyphs (Eastern Ignimbrite Spur)
Formative to Late Intermediate (Tarapacá 400 BCE–1400 CE) · Tarapacá caravan (Alto Ramírez–Pica)
East-ridge geoglyphs 1.8 km east of Salar de Huasco: 22 ignimbrite figures including caravan llamas and solstice avenue at 3,835 m.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Acre — Capixaba Ramal Geoglyphs Phase West (Western Acre Ramal)
Early to Late Pre-Columbian (400 BCE – 1000 CE) · Acre geoglyph culture / Arawak
Western Ramal triple geoglyph at Capixaba — 3× 120 m squares with 700 m avenue at –10.05S.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa South Sector Geoglyphs (Quebrada Chaviña Sur)
Nasca-Huari Transition to Middle Horizon · Huarpa–Wari (Lucanas)
Chaviña south pampa: 20 spiral/camelid figures on Lucanas ignimbrite fan at 3,280 m.
🇨🇱 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Nazca Lines
Early Intermediate Period, Paracas to Nazca culture · Paracas / Nazca
Over 300 geometric and figurative geoglyphs etched by removing dark desert pavement to reveal light subsoil across 450 km² of arid Pampas, including 1.8 km hummingbird, monkey, spider, and trapezoids…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar de Huasco North Bofedal Geoglyphs (Northern Peatland Terrace)
Late Archaic to Formative (3000 BCE–800 CE) · Tarapacá altiplano foragers to caravan
North bofedal geoglyphs 6 km north of Huasco lagoons: 16 salt-crust figures including rayed anthropomorphs and Collacagua arrow at 3,810 m.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Camarones South Escarpment Geoglyphs (Southern Gorge Rim)
Formative to Middle Horizon (Alto Ramírez–Cabuza 400–800 CE) · South bank Camarones gorge groups
23 inverted south escarpment figures 480 m: head-downhill giants + pelican and open trapezoid across from north terrace binocular.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Wisad Central Plateau Kites (Central Wisad Basalt Table)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7200–6200 BCE) · Black Desert PPNB pastoral hunters (Wisad Pools group)
11 central plateau kites 730 m: funnel walls 280–620 m to star pens with chert anvil, highest packing density on Wisad.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Choapa Pampa Geoglyphs (Salamanca–Los Vilos Corridor)
El Molle to Diaguita–Inca · Choapa–Diaguita agropastoralists
Southern fringe geoglyphs at Choapa (31°S): 12 transitional figures marking trans-Andean pass to Argentina.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Cerro Sombrero Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate (Tarapacá / Pica) · Tarapacá / Atacameño caravan
16 Tarapacá hilltop geoglyphs (900–1400 CE) on Cerro Sombrero mesa NW of Pintados.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Miculla Geoglyphs & Petroglyph Field (San Francisco de Miculla)
Archaic to Middle Horizon (Tiwanaku–Wari interaction) · Tiwanaku–Huari interface / Tacna coastal–altiplano
>500 boulders and 40+ desert lines (400–1000 CE peak) at Tacna's Caplina desert gateway.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Carro Quemado Stone-Circle Geoglyphs (Valle de las Pinturas, La Pampa)
Late Holocene (Patagonian hunter–gatherer, Araucanized) · Tehuelche / La Pampa foothill hunter–gatherers
70+ basalt circle and line geoglyphs (800–1600 CE) on La Pampa meseta — Patagonian pampa hunting cosmology.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Geoglifos de Pintados
Late Formative to Late Intermediate (700–1500 CE) · Atacameño, Tarapacá and Altiplano caravan cultures
400 Atacama caravan geoglyphs (700–1500 CE) etched in desert varnish above the Tamarugal pampa.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi al-Qattafi Central Mesa Interfluve Kites (Mesas M-7–M-9 Interfluve)
PPNB–Late Neolithic (7000–5500 BCE) · Black Desert hunters
Interfluve plateau between north and south arms of Wadi al-Qattafi 5 km north of Qa' al-Qattafi playa (680 m).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Alto Ramírez Cerro Tatara Geoglyphs (Tatara Hillside Panels)
Formative (400 BCE–650 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Steep 18° north-facing hillside on Cerro Tatara promontory at km 55, commanding 6 km Lluta floodplain view.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Alto Ramírez Pampa El Muerto Geoglyphs (El Muerto Plain)
Late Archaic–Formative (1000 BCE–500 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Flat pampa surface (1,350 m) 8 km east of classic km 60 Alto Ramírez slope, with extensive pavement (gobi texture).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Southeast Dune Geoglyphs (Dune-Edge Corridor)
Late Formative to Late Intermediate (500–1200 CE) · Atacama caravan
Southeast margin of Salar del Sur where transverse dunes abut playa fringe (2,300 m). Thirteen figures on compact gypscrete between dunes: 40-m ladder, 22-m feline, and 90-m paired avenues (2.0 m…
🇪🇸 Spain · Geoglyph
Geoglyphs of Kuma Willoughby
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Geoglyphs of Kuma Willoughby in Andalusia, Spain is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇨🇱 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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Al-Qattafi Central Gorge Slot Kites (Central Arm Narrows)
PPNB Late to PN (7000–5800 BCE) · Central Qattafi gorge bottleneck trappers
7 bidirectional central gorge kites 710 m in 3.2 km 25 m-deep narrows — 150 m walls plus deepest 1.6 m pits with 21 gazelle skeletons in situ.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Al-Qattafi South Mesa Chain Kites (Southern Basalt Mesas Qattafi)
PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7200–5000 BCE) · Qattafi basin pastoral trappers (Wadi al-Qattafi group)
10 south mesa kites 695 m: 320–780 m walls using 40% natural escarpment as barrier, mesa-lee pens with burial cairn cutting wall.