SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES
Nasca - Nazca

File number: pga0484

© South American Pictures/ Tony Morrison

Nasca (Nazca), Peru. The spirally descending path to a restored puquio - a subterranean water channel. These man-made tunnels run for long distances and were built to carry ground water below the hot desert. A comparison is sometimes drawn with the extensive system of quanats in the Irania deserts

 

 

 

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