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11 unusual facts about Nazca


Aztec Adventure

While the original Japanese version depicts the adventure in Nazca, the story and title were later changed to be based in Aztec settings for international releases, though the elements of the former culture, including the Nazca Lines, can still be seen.

Bill Vazan

Vazan created other controversial land art projects on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City (1979), on the Nazca plains in Peru (1984–86), in Utah and Nevada (1993), in Gotland, Sweden (1997) and in the mountains of Thebes in Egypt (2001).

David Villalpando

Villalpando has appeared in many international films like The Arrival, Men with Guns, Perdita Durango, Nazca, The Harvest, The Mask of Zorro, Daughter of the Puma, Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 and American Family.

Demographics of Peru

The Afro-Peruvian population is concentrated mostly in coastal cities south of Lima, such as that of those found in the Ica Region, in cities like Cañete, Chincha, Ica, Nazca and Acarí in the border with the Arequipa Region.

G. E. Berrios

He is married to Doris Alvarado Contreras (born Nazca, Peru, 1942); they have had 4 children: German Arnaldo (deceased), Francisco Javier (deceased), Claudio Fabricio (Business Analyst) and Ruben Ernesto (Philosopher).

Iridoteuthis maoria

It occurs in Cook Strait and Chatham Rise off North Island in New Zealand, and has also been recorded from the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the eastern Pacific.

Nazca

According to the writings of chroniclers, it was founded on October 28, 1548, commissioned by Pedro de la Gasca, peacemaker by Alonso de Mendoza.

The other version says that it was founded by Viceroy García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, in 1591.

Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is a city and a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the region's largest existing town in the Nazca Province.

Two days earlier, on October 12 General Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales, from Ica, was sent to the South in pursuit of the royalist troops of Colonel Manuel Quimper getaways from Ica, in its second and chief of staff of the Division de la Sierra, the Argentine Manuel Rojas Argerich Lieutenant Colonel in command of 250 men: 110 infantry and 140 cavalry.

Sepioloidea pacifica

Sepioloidea pacifica, also known as the Pacific Bobtail Squid, is a species of cuttlefish native to the southern Pacific Ocean; it occurs off New Zealand in the west and in the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the east.


Band of Holes

The holes were a subject of discussion on the Ancient Aliens episode "The Mission" (S1E3, 2010), along with the Nazca lines.

Red-footed Booby

The black-tailed white morph is similar, but with a black tail, and can easily be confused with the Nazca and Masked Boobies.

Siblicide

The closely related Masked and Nazca Boobies (Masked Booby and Nazca Booby) are both obligately siblicidal species, while the Blue-footed Booby is a facultatively siblicidal species.

Ubinas

Ubinas is located 230 km east of the Peru-Chile trench and about 150 km above the Benioff-Wadati plane, where the Nazca plate is subducting at a dip ranging from 20 – 30˚ as characteristic of the CVZ.