Tiawanacu
Tiawanacu is a village in Tiwanaku Municipality, Ingavi Province, La Paz and has about 860 residents. Tiawanacu is situated nearby to the hamlet Chambi Chico, as well as near the village Kasa Achuta.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.
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.
Tiawanacu
- Type: Village with 860 residents
- Also known as: “Taypiqala”, “Tiahuanaco”, “Tiahuanacu”, “Tiahuanaku”, and “Tiwanaku”
- Category: locality
- Location: Tiwanaku Municipality, Ingavi Province, La Paz, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-16.55312° or 16° 33′ 11″ southLongitude
-68.6816° or 68° 40′ 54″ westPopulation
860Open location code
57MHC8W9+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 570042613OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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