Most can only be appreciated from the air. The designs occupy a 500 square Km piece of land and they average 180 m (600 ft.) in length, although one perfectly formed arrow exceeds 1,600 ft. The geoglyphs are between one and two thousand years old and it is not clear what their meaning is, although theories abound.

2022年10月25日 · The largest of the geoglyphs is a giant spiral covering 0.05 square miles (0.13 square kilometers), which would measure 7.5 miles (12 km) if stretched out into a straight line.

2021年3月1日 · The largest prehistoric anthropomorphic geoglyph is found in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Known as the Atacama Giant , the figure is 119 meters (390 ft) long and one of many geoglyphs to be found in the region.

2022年4月1日 · The Atacama Giant is an anthropomorphic geoglyph measuring 119 meters (390 feet) in height, making it the largest known geoglyph in the world. It is characterized by a square head and highly stylized long legs.

2021年10月11日 · It is the largest prehistoric representation of a human figure in the world with a height of 119 metres (390 ft). Its location is about 497 miles (800 kilometres) south of Peru’s Nazca lines – the best-known geoglyphs in the world. The Atacama Giant lies in the Atacama Desert, the driest non-polar desert on Earth.

2024年10月26日 · In 2020, a giant 2,000-year-old cat among the Nazca lines was discovered in Peru, and in 2023, the largest known cat, geoglyph, was discovered in Chile. The Atacama Giant is described as a colossal geoglyph. With its large design stretching across the vast Atacama Desert, it's the largest of all its kind.

The Boha geoglyphs or Great Indian Desert geoglyph are a group of large geoglyphs made in the soil in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India. Several sites were found located around the city of Jaisalmer, marked by geometrical lines resembling geoglyphs.

2014年12月22日 · Illustrated on a Chilean hillside known as Cerro Unitas and surrounded by thousands of smaller geoglyphs, the Atacama Giant, a massive image of a deity used to …

2021年6月14日 · World's largest geometrical man-made painting has been discovered in Rajasthan's Thar desert. It is a huge spiral artwork that covers over 1,00,000 square metres in Boha village, close to...

The clear-cut geometrical lines and arranged motifs of the Thar Desert geoglyphs are now the largest ever graphical depictions by humans in the world!