Day: May 13, 2016

To celebrate the 450th contest in WhereOnGoogleEarth.net, which started back on February 12th, 2008 with an image of Ground Zero in New York City, we are going to run another contest similar to the one we had just prior to #400 and let you submit locations for us to choose from.

Please comment as usual on this post – giving us the latitude and longitude of the location as well as why you chose this spot. We will accept submissions from players before Wednesday, May 25.

We will sort through submissions and promise to choose a good one for 450!

Puquios is a large aquaduct and irrigation system thought to have been constructed by a pre-Columbian civilization in Peru about 2000 years ago. The spiral holes are called “ojo” or “eyes” and were, for most of our age, thought to be only for accessing the underground aquaducts and cleaning of the water tunnels. Recently, though, Italian scientists and forumlated a theory that the shape of the hole creates an air funnel that actually helps push the water along through the tunnels.

By Ab5602

Those who fell into the wells before the hint included:

• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• Ann K.
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• Eloy Cano
• Junebug
• Marisa Boraas
• Garfield
• Ashwini Agrawal
• joe9000
• Glenmorren
• Lelie
• Max_Power
• Luís Filipe Miguel
• steven simmons

After the hint:

• Robin
• rob de wolff
• mehmet durmus