El Gigante de Atacama   Smaller picture

1. El Gigante de Atacama
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On a hill on the otherwise flat plateau is this figure, which was drawn some time between 900 and 1200 AD. As I understood it, the dry and salt conditions has helped to preserved the drawing. There are a number of such geoglyphs in this area, of which this is the biggest one.