Tiwanaku Municipality
Tiwanaku Municipality is the third municipal section of the Ingavi Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is the village of Tiwanaku located near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tiwanaku.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tiwanaku and Pumapunku.
Tiwanaku
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Tiwanaku is an archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage site in the La Paz Department of Bolivia.
Pumapunku
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Pumapunku or Puma Punku is a 6th-century T-shaped and strategically aligned man-made terraced platform mound with a sunken court and monumental structure on top, near Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia.
Sun Gate
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The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun, is a monolithic gateway at the site of Tiahuanaco by the Tiwanaku culture, an Andean civilization of Bolivia that thrived around Lake Titicaca in the Andes of western South America around 500-950 AD.
Tiwanaku Municipality
- Type: Locality with 12,200 residents
- Description: municipality of Bolivia
- Category: municipality of Bolivia
- Location: Ingavi Province, La Paz, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Tiwanaku Municipality” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tiwanacu”
- Dutch: “Tiahuanacu”
- French: “Tiwanaku”
- Georgian: “ტიუანაკოს მუნიციპალიტეტი”
- German: “Municipio Tiahuanacu”
- Italian: “Tiahuanacu”
- Mingrelian: “ტიუანაკოშ მუნიციპალიტეტი”
- Quechua: “Tiwanaku munisipyu”
- Russian: “Тиауанако”
- Russian: “Тиванако”
- Russian: “Тиуанако”
- Russian: “Тиуанаку”
- Spanish: “Tiahuanaco”
- Spanish: “Tiahuanacu”
- Spanish: “Tiwanaku”
- Swedish: “Tiwanaku”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Tiwanaku”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tiwanaku and Cerro Lloko Lloko.
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