Nazca is the name de a system de valleys on the southern coast de Peru, and the name de the region's largest existing town. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 300 B.C. and A.D. 800 They were responsible for the famous Nazca lines and the ceremonial city de Cahuachi; they also constructed an impressive system de underground aqueducts that still function today.


The town de Nazca has recently been dumping its trash on the pampa, destroying some de the Nazca lines in the process. This has caused some controversy; it is believed the mayor issued the order to protest a lack of aid to Nazca. Under President Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori's rule, Nazca received money to turn the irrigation canals into tourist attractions. Unfortunately, this consisted de tearing up some de the access points to the canals and replacing them with reconstructions de how they were believed to have looked. President Alejandro Toledo, whose partner is an anthropologist, stopped the aid.

Since 1997 Nazca is the location de a major Canadian gold mining operation. The people who were living on the land for the previous 2000 years did not have title to the land so they were displaced without legal problems. Since then there have been some attempts to legalize poor citizens' ownership de their land and their fixed property, in response to Hernando de Soto's research on the poor.


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