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Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is the name of a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, and the name of the region's largest existing town. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture
Nazca culture

The Nasca culture flourished from the first to eighth centuries AD beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley ....
 that flourished in the area between 300 BC and AD 800
800

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. They were responsible for the Nazca Lines
Nazca Lines

The Nazca lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 80 km between the towns of Nazca and Palpa, Peru on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru....
 and the ceremonial city of Cahuachi
Cahuachi

Cahuachi, in Peru, was a major ceremonial center of the Nazca culture and overlooked some of the Nazca lines from 1 CE to about 500 CE. Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici has been excavating the site for the past few decades, bringing a team down every year....
; they also constructed an impressive system of underground aqueducts
Puquios

Puquios is a name given to an old system of aqueduct near the city of Nazca, Peru. Out of 36 Puquios, most are still functioning and relied upon to bring fresh water into the arid desert....
 named Puquios
Puquios

Puquios is a name given to an old system of aqueduct near the city of Nazca, Peru. Out of 36 Puquios, most are still functioning and relied upon to bring fresh water into the arid desert....
, that still function today.

The town of Nazca has recently been dumping its trash on the pampa, destroying some of the Nazca lines in the process.






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Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is the name of a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, and the name of the region's largest existing town. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture
Nazca culture

The Nasca culture flourished from the first to eighth centuries AD beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley ....
 that flourished in the area between 300 BC and AD 800
800

Sorry, no overview for this topic
. They were responsible for the Nazca Lines
Nazca Lines

The Nazca lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 80 km between the towns of Nazca and Palpa, Peru on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru....
 and the ceremonial city of Cahuachi
Cahuachi

Cahuachi, in Peru, was a major ceremonial center of the Nazca culture and overlooked some of the Nazca lines from 1 CE to about 500 CE. Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici has been excavating the site for the past few decades, bringing a team down every year....
; they also constructed an impressive system of underground aqueducts
Puquios

Puquios is a name given to an old system of aqueduct near the city of Nazca, Peru. Out of 36 Puquios, most are still functioning and relied upon to bring fresh water into the arid desert....
 named Puquios
Puquios

Puquios is a name given to an old system of aqueduct near the city of Nazca, Peru. Out of 36 Puquios, most are still functioning and relied upon to bring fresh water into the arid desert....
, that still function today.

The town of Nazca has recently been dumping its trash on the pampa, destroying some of the Nazca lines in the process. Under President Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori is a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from July 28, 1990 to November 17, 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of authoritarianism and human rights violations....
's rule, Nazca received money to turn the irrigation canals into tourist attractions. President Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Toledo

Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian politician and economist. He was List of Presidents of Peru of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in 2001 defeating former President Alan Garc?a....
, whose partner is an anthropologist
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
, stopped the aid.

Since 1997, Nazca has been the location of a major Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 gold mining
Gold mining

Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the resource extraction of gold from the ground. There are several techniques by which gold may be extracted from the Earth....
 operation. The people who were living on the land for the previous 2000 years did not have title
Title (property)

Title is a law term for a bundle of rights in a piece of Possession in which a party may own either a legal interest or an Equitable_interest The rights in the bundle may be separated and held by different parties....
 to the land so they were displaced without legal problems. Since then there have been some attempts to legalize poor citizens' ownership of their land and their fixed property, in response to Hernando de Soto's
Hernando de Soto (economist)

Hernando de Soto Polar is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of property rights. He is the president of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy , located in Lima....
 research on the poor.