"Gigante de Atacama
is a large anthropomorphic geoglyph in the Atacama Desert, Chile."
"Located at "Cerro Unitas", this is the largest prehistoric anthropomorphic figure in the world with a length of 119 metres (390 ft), representing a deity for the local inhabitants from AD 1000 to 1400. "
"The Atacama people, known as atacameños or atacamas in Spanish and kunzas, likan-antai or likanantaí in English, are an indigenous people from the Atacama Desert and altiplano region in the north of Chile and Argentina and southern Bolivia.
"The original language of the Atacameños was the recently extinct language of kunza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunza_language
According to the Argentinean Census in 2010, 13,936 people identified as first-generation Atacameño in Argentina, while Chile was home to 21,015 Atacameño people as of 2002." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_people
"The origins of Atacameño culture can be traced back to 500 AD. The Tiwanaku people were the first known conquerers. At the start of the 15th century, the Atacameño were conquered by the Inca Topa Inca Yupanqui, who introduced a new social order, the Inca sun cult and various customs including coca leaves. The Inca regime constructed roads from the Salar de Atacama to what is now north east Argentina."
"The territory of Chile has been populated since at least 3000 BC."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chile
"Tiwanaku
is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia."
"The figure was an early astronomical calendar for knowing where the moon would set; by knowing this the day, crop cycle, and season could be determined. The points on the top and side of the head would say what season it would be depending on their alignment with the moon, which was very important in determining when the rainy season would come in the barren Atacama."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Giant
I am going to discover many more of these!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archaeological_sites_in_Chile
"When the first humans came to the Americas, the glacial climate of the Pleistocene was just beginning to lessen. In the Semi-arid north of Chile (from the Copiapó to the Aconcagua Valley) the melting of the ice left behind a land sprinkled with lakes and rushing rivers, increasing vegetation and concentrating herds of large land animals, now extinct, around these more verdant areas. Among these animals were the so-called megafauna, including mastodon, New World horses, swamp deer, early llama and Milodon."