{
 "title": "Paracas Candelabra: orientation, geometry and sky",
 "title_es": "Candelabro de Paracas: orientación, geometría y cielo",
 "publisher": "Pi Rambla Heritage Foundation",
 "source_page": "https://www.pirambla.org/candelabro.html#enigma",
 "method": "Aerial drone photogrammetry with GNSS (2018) and terrain analysis; astronomical positions computed for Paracas with precession.",
 "method_es": "Fotogrametría aérea con dron y GNSS (2018) y análisis del relieve; posiciones astronómicas calculadas para Paracas con la precesión.",
 "status": "preliminary results",
 "status_es": "resultados preliminares",
 "version": "1.0",
 "date": "2026-09-30",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
 "columns": [
  "parameter",
  "parametro",
  "value",
  "unit",
  "status",
  "note"
 ],
 "data": [
  {
   "parameter": "Azimuth of the central axis",
   "parametro": "Azimut del eje central",
   "value": 175,
   "unit": "deg",
   "status": "measured (preliminary)",
   "note": "About 5 degrees east of south; the axis follows the line of steepest slope of the hill."
  },
  {
   "parameter": "Base rectangle, length",
   "parametro": "Rectángulo de la base, largo",
   "value": 20.4,
   "unit": "m",
   "status": "measured (preliminary)",
   "note": "Drone photogrammetry with GNSS, Anselm Pi Rambla team, 8 November 2018."
  },
  {
   "parameter": "Base rectangle, width",
   "parametro": "Rectángulo de la base, ancho",
   "value": 14.4,
   "unit": "m",
   "status": "measured (preliminary)",
   "note": "Drone photogrammetry with GNSS, Anselm Pi Rambla team, 8 November 2018."
  },
  {
   "parameter": "Length/width ratio",
   "parametro": "Proporción largo/ancho",
   "value": 1.4167,
   "unit": "",
   "status": "computed",
   "note": "= 17/12 (1.4167); square root of 2 = 1.4142; difference under two thousandths."
  },
  {
   "parameter": "Southern Cross culmination altitude, today",
   "parametro": "Altura de culminación de la Cruz del Sur, hoy",
   "value": 41,
   "unit": "deg",
   "status": "computed (approx.)",
   "note": "Seen from Paracas."
  },
  {
   "parameter": "Southern Cross culmination altitude, about 2,200 years ago",
   "parametro": "Altura de culminación de la Cruz del Sur, hace unos 2.200 años",
   "value": 52,
   "unit": "deg",
   "status": "computed (approx.)",
   "note": "Effect of the precession of the equinoxes; the axis of the Cross then pointed to the South Celestial Pole within less than 2 degrees."
  },
  {
   "parameter": "Vertical position of the Southern Cross, today",
   "parametro": "Posición vertical de la Cruz del Sur, hoy",
   "value": "21:45, 3 May",
   "unit": "local time",
   "status": "computed (approx.)",
   "note": "Date of the Cruz Velakuy rite; at the time of the geoglyph the same sky occurred about a month earlier, in early April."
  }
 ]
}