"The culprits are meteorites, or as the Indigenous Moqoit (Mocovi) people call them, gifts from the sky. The Piguem N'onaxa (Campo del Cielo, or Field of the Sky) Reserve is a provincial park in the town of Gancedo, Chaco. It is a protected area within a larger zone where, more than 4,000 years ago, a giant meteor, believed to have weighed about 800 tons roughly the weight of five blue whales fell."
"Campo del Cielo is one of the largest known impact craters on Earth. It contains some of the world's largest discovered fragments, such as Chaco, which weighs 37 tons, measures 2.20 meters at its tallest point, and is the second-largest meteorite on the planet. Also located there is Gancedo, the third-largest, weighing 28 tons, as recorded by scientists in 2016. However, the Moqoit people knew about these iron and nickel objects long before that."
Campo del Cielo in northern Argentina contains dozens of depressions formed by a meteor shower more than 4,000 years ago when a roughly 800-ton meteor broke apart. The shower spread across an area about 100 kilometers long and three kilometers wide, creating one of Earth's largest impact-crater fields. The site holds some of the largest known meteorite fragments, including Chaco (37 tons) and Gancedo (28 tons). The Indigenous Moqoit (Mocovi) people recognize the iron-nickel meteorites as gifts from the sky and maintain spiritual connections. Local Moqoit guides welcome visitors and convey cultural meanings alongside scientific information.
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