Geometry in the Real World

Juliaca Main Square, Plaza de Armas, Peru, Golden Rectangle

Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares (logarithmic spiral known as the golden spiral).


Juliaca, Peru, Main Square, Plaza de Armas
Juliaca is the capital of San Roman Province in the Puno Region of southeastern Peru. It is the region's largest city with a population of 225,146 inhabitants (2007). On the Altiplano, Juliaca is 12,549 ft above sea level, is located on the Collao Plateau and is northwest of Lake Titicaca (45 km), the world's highest accessible lake. It is the largest trade center in the Puno region. Source: Wikipedia: Juliaca.

Golden rectangle
A golden rectangle is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio, one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive feature of this shape is that when a square section is removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is, with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
 

Juliaca Main Square, Plaza de Armas, Peru, Golden Rectangles

 

 

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