Tiwanaku
Tiwanaku is an archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage site in the La Paz Department of Bolivia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sun Gate and Kalasasaya.
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.
Kalasasaya
Photo: Anakin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kalasasaya or Stopped Stones is a major archaeological structure that is part of Tiwanaku, an ancient archeological complex in the Andes of western Bolivia that is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tiwanaku
- Type: Archaeological site
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: La Paz, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude
-16.555° or 16° 33′ 18″ southLongitude
-68.67361° or 68° 40′ 25″ westElevation
3,863 metres (12,674 feet)Open location code
57MHC8VG+XHGeoNames ID
9855424
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tiwanaku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيواناكو”
- Azerbaijani: “Tiauanako”
- Bengali: “তিওয়ানাকু সভ্যতা”
- Bosnian: “Tiahuanaco”
- Bulgarian: “Тиуанако”
- Cebuano: “Tiahuanaco”
- Chinese: “蒂亞瓦納科”
- Croatian: “Tiahuanaco”
- Esperanto: “Tiahuanaco”
- Georgian: “ტიუანაკო”
- German: “Tiahuanaco”
- Hebrew: “טיוואנאקו”
- Hungarian: “Tiahuanaco”
- Indonesian: “Tiahuanaco”
- Italian: “Tiahuanaco”
- Japanese: “ティワナク”
- Kazakh: “Тиуанако”
- Korean: “티아우아나코”
- Latin: “Tiahuanaco”
- Lithuanian: “Tihuanakas”
- Macedonian: “Тиванаку”
- Malayalam: “ടിയവ്നാകൊ”
- Persian: “تیاهواناکو”
- Polish: “Tiahuanaco”
- Russian: “Тиуанако”
- Serbian: “Тијаванако”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tiahuanaco”
- Slovak: “Tiahuanaco”
- Slovenian: “Tiavanaku”
- Spanish: “Tiahuanaco”
- Ukrainian: “Тіуанако”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tiwanaku”. Photo: Pipouchat, CC BY-SA 3.0.