The Atacama Giant (Spanish: Gigante de Atacama) is an anthropomorphic geoglyph on the Cerro Unitas area of the Atacama Desert, Chile.[1] At about 119 meters (390 feet), is the largest prehistoric anthropomorphic geoglyph. It has been suggested that the petroglyph represents a shaman, spiritual figure or deity, but there is little evidence to corroborate these claims.[citation needed]
Atacama Giant, vectorized drawing
The figure was an early astronomical calendar for knowing where the moon would set; by knowing this the day, crop cycle, and season could be determined.[citation needed] The points on the top and side of the head would say what season it would be depending on their alignment with the moon, which was important in determining when the rainy season would come in the barren Atacama.[citation needed]
The Atacama Giant is one out of nearly 5,000 geoglyphs (ancient artwork that is drawn into the landscape) that have been discovered in the Atacama region in the last three decades.[2] It is believed that they are the work of several successive cultures that dwelt in this region of South America, including the Tiwanaku and Inca.
^Hirst, K. Kris. "The Geoglyphic Art of Chile's Atacama Desert Messages, Memories and Rites of the Landscape". about.com. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile...
chalk hillsides. Examples include the Uffington White Horse, Cerne Abbas Giant, Westbury White Horse, and the Long Man of Wilmington. Some are ancient...
Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. Commissioning is anticipated in the early 2030s. Once complete, the Giant Magellan will be the largest Gregorian...
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carvings, and textiles. Arica Iquique Antofagasta The AtacamaGiant Chinchorro mummies The Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world was picked in...
that goes to Oruro in Bolivia. This road also serves as access to the AtacamaGiant site and the Volcán Isluga National Park. The commune also comprises...
Antofagasta, El Loa and Tocopilla. It is bordered to the north by Tarapacá, by Atacama to the south, and to the east by Bolivia and Argentina. The region's capital...
of ELT VLOT: Very Large Optical Telescope, merged into TMT LAT: Large Atacama Telescope EURO50: European 50-metre Telescope, merged into ELT LPT: Large...
and photographs (in English) Corporación Pro Antofagasta The giant hand buried in the Atacama Desert Keep Up the High Five: La Mano Del Desierto in El Observatodo...
smaller auxiliary telescopes which can all work together or separately. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array observes the universe in the millimetre and submillimetre...
The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) is a proposed 25 metres (82 ft) diameter telescope that is intended to reveal the cosmic origins of stars...
microstructure and isotopic data on Livyatan, a large physteroid from the Atacama region, northern Chile. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate...
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to be threatened by woody plant encroachment. Some guanacos live in the Atacama Desert, where in some areas it has not rained for over 50 years. A mountainous...
Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS). It is in the southern Atacama Desert of Chile in the Atacama Region approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of...
commercially exploitable amounts of hydrocarbons. In the forelands of the Atacama Desert some of the largest porphyry copper mineralizations occur making...
the Atacama. The average precipitation in the Chilean region of Antofagasta is just 1 mm (0.039 in) per year. Some weather stations in the Atacama have...
permeate beyond its drier western edges, near the Chilean border and the Atacama Desert.[citation needed] The Salar has been used as a filming location...
Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant columnar cacti. Madagascar spiny forests Atacama Desert Desert – Area of land where little precipitation...
of Madrid (in 1987), the Mano del Desierto (Hand of the Desert) in the Atacama Desert in Chile (1992), and in Venice (1995). The Awakening, a 1980 sculpture...
objects in the study of the Lyman-alpha forest. Observations made by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in 2021 revealed the apparent source of the...
and at its northeastern foot. They were built presumably by the Inca or Atacama people for religious and cultural ceremonies, and are among the most important...
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