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    The Paracas Peninsula is a desert peninsula within the boundaries of the Paracas National Reserve, a marine reserve that extends south along the coast...
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    information about the lives of the Paracas people comes from excavations at the large seaside Paracas site on the Paracas Peninsula, first formally investigated...
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    Paracas Candelabra, also called the Candelabra of the Andes, is a well-known prehistoric geoglyph found on the northern face of the Paracas Peninsula...
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  • Look up paracas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Paracas or variation, may refer to: Paracas Peninsula, located in the Ica Region of Peru Paracas Bay,...
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    point for tours to Islas Ballestas and to Paracas National Reserve. The Paracas Bay, protected by Paracas Peninsula, gives these shallow, warmer waters a...
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  • Peninsula Brunswick Peninsula Hardy Peninsula Taitao Peninsula Guajira Peninsula Illescas Peninsula Paracas Peninsula Punta del Este Araya Peninsula Guajira...
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    geographic features such as: the Paracas Peninsula, Independencia Bay, San Gallán Island, Paracas Bay and Independencia Island. Paracas National Reserve is an arid...
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    point for tours to Islas Ballestas and to Paracas National Reservation. Paracas Bay, protected by Paracas Peninsula, gives these shallow, warmer waters break...
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    restricted to the Paracas National Reservation, including two islands (La Vieja in the Bahia Independencia and Sangayan west of the Paracas Peninsula). This gecko...
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  • Paracas Bay, with its southern end lying within the Paracas National Reservation is well known for its abundant wildlife. The unique ecosystem, insulated...
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    South American fur seal is found on neotropical ocean coasts from the Paracas Peninsula of southern Peru south to Cape Horn on the Pacific coast, and northward...
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    and the British Museum. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paracas textiles. Paracas textile, British Museum, accessed 27 September 2010 Proulx, Donald...
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    Paracas culture. Tello Obelisk, named in his honor, monument of the Chavín culture. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Julio César Tello. Paracas...
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    Islas Ballestas) are a group of small islands near the town of Paracas within the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region, on the south...
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  • Pacific Ocean, 5,2 km west off Paracas Peninsula, separated from it by El Boquerón strait. The island lies within Paracas District, Pisco Province, region...
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    Inca site of Tambo Colorado. El Candelabro, the north part of the Paracas peninsula usually seen on tours going to the Ballestas Islands Pelicans, Ballestas...
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    began to develop. The earliest of these was the Paracas culture, centered on the Paracas Peninsula of central Peru. Active from 600 BCE to 175 BCE, their...
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  • reconstructed Wignacourt Arch is inaugurated. Peru Paracas Museum (Museo de Sitio de Paracas) on Paracas Peninsula, by designed by Barclay & Crousse, is built...
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    en la península de Paracas, Perú" [Biology and Conservation of Markham's storm petrel Oceanodroma markhami (Salvin 1883) in the Paracas Peninsula, Peru]...
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    Morgetes Others Aequi Hernici Vestini Euganei The Celts of the Italian peninsula included, Cisalpine Gauls - Centered in the area south of Lepontii. Boii...
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    13th–5th centuries BC Mixtec civilization 1500 BC – 1523 AD Olmec La Venta Kingdom city states 1400–400 BC Paracas 800–100 BC Pukara Pukara 1400 BC – 400 AD...
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    millennium AD, Moche (100 BC – 700 AD, at the northern coast of Peru), Paracas and Nazca (400 BC – 800 AD, Peru) cultures flourished with centralized...
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    other sardines, reaching into ancient cultures, including Chimú culture, Paracas culture, Pachacamac, and most importantly the oldest known civilization...
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    not known in great detail. Archaeological exploration in the Arabian peninsula has been sparse; indigenous written sources are limited to the many inscriptions...
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    at this time, such as Chavín culture, lasting from 900 BCE to 200 BCE, Paracas culture, lasting from 800 BCE to 200 BCE, its successor Nazca culture,...
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    Antropología e Historia del Perú (Lima, Peru). Paracas mantle 200 CE Larco Museum, Lima-Perú Nazca mantle from Paracas Necropolis, 0-100 . This is a "double fish"...
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    the Andean civilizations, such as pre-Incan cultures. For example, the Paracas culture Ica, situated in what is now known as Ica, located south of Lima...
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    gradual, but after 500 BC, the political balance of power on the Italian peninsula shifted away from the Etruscans in favor of the rising Roman Republic...
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    still, invading what was many centuries later to be called the Arabian Peninsula or Arabia, and conquering the pre-Arab state of Dilmun (in modern Bahrain)...
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    culture), coastal Peru Paiján culture, northern coastal Peru, 8700–5900 BCE Paracas, south coastal Peru, 600–175 BCE Recuay culture, Peru (Precolumbian culture)...
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