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Multi-periodSite Name: Lake Titicaca Raised FieldsCountry: Peru
NOTE: This site is 21.483 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Juliaca Nearest Village: Buena Vista
Latitude: 15.647S Longitude: 70.1469W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Ancient Settlement in Peru.Pre-contact field systems, dating back to before the Inca Empire. These field systems of the Lake Titicaca Basin were built by excavating parallel canals and piling the Earth to form long and low mounds.
They are still worked today, generally with hand tools. The mounds vary in size from 4x10m to 10x100m, but are generally grouped together into larger squares or rectangles.
Clark Erickson and Kay Candler have studied these field systems, which are threatened by modern mechanized agriculture.
The location given is only one of many areas found on the western side of Lake Titicaca. The location was chosen because it is an area where researcher Amelia Sparavigna (Turin's Polytechnic University) believes that the field systems were intentionally formed into geoglyphs. (See the attached news item.)
Raised Fields and Sustainable Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Peru, Clark L. Erickson and Kay L. Candler
Note: Researcher Using Google Earth Sees "birds, snakes" in Peruvian Ancient Field Systems.
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