[Free_in_Alabama]

For later reading. Thanks

[r9etb]

Hate to tell you, but the spot in question appears to be in an actively cultivated region. The structures you're looking at, could have been at any time over the past 400 years.

Here's how to get a wider-scale image:

Go to Google Maps, and type "-16.4368,-68.58068" (the latitude and longitude corresponding to your picture) into the Search box.

[Koracan]

Remember the face on Mars.?

[SunkenCiv]

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[wendy1946]

There's more jaw-dropping stuff down there than that. That stuff could plausibly be made by bronze-age people; This could not:

What you see at Puma-Punku is the hardest kinds of stone carved totally straight and flat as if by plasma or laser cutting tools; that seemingly would imply a space-faring civilization.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Looks like irrigation.