Wancollo
Wancollo is a village in La Paz, Altiplano and has about 459 residents and an elevation of 3,876 metres. Wancollo is situated nearby to the village Causaya, as well as near Kasa Achuta.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tiwanaku and Pumapunku.
Tiwanaku
Photo: Pipouchat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tiwanaku is an archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage site in the La Paz Department of Bolivia.
Pumapunku
Photo: Brattarb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Pumapunku is situated 4 km northwest of Wancollo.
Sun Gate
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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. Sun Gate is situated 4 km northwest of Wancollo.
Wancollo
- Type: Village with 459 residents
- Also known as: “Huancollo” and “Huanocollo”
- Category: locality
- Location: La Paz, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude
-16.57742° or 16° 34′ 39″ southLongitude
-68.64818° or 68° 38′ 54″ westPopulation
459Elevation
3,876 metres (12,717 feet)Open location code
57MHC9F2+2POpenStreetMap ID
node 5254879422OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3914863
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In Other Languages
“Wancollo” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Wancollo”
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