Sun Gate
The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun, is a monolithic gateway at the site of Tiahuanaco, built by the Tiwanaku culture, an Andean civilization of Bolivia that thrived around Lake Titicaca in the Andes of western South America around AD 500–950.- Tourist attraction
- …lies at an elevation of 3,860 metres (12,664 feet)
- …is also known as “Gate of the Sun”
- Description: megalithic solid stone arch or gateway constructed by the ancient Tiwanaku culture of Peru and Bolivia
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tiwanaku and Kalasasaya.
Sun Gate
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Latitude
-16.55442° or 16° 33′ 16″ south
Longitude
-68.67394° or 68° 40′ 26″ west
Open location code
57MHC8WG+6C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sun Gate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوابة الشمس”
- Belarusian: “Вароты Сонца”
- Catalan: “Porta del Sol”
- Chinese: “太阳门”
- Chinese: “太陽門”
- Czech: “Sluneční brána”
- French: “Porte du Soleil”
- Hungarian: “Nap kapuja”
- Japanese: “太陽の門”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pòrta deu Só”
- Persian: “دروازه خورشید”
- Polish: “Brama Słońca”
- Portuguese: “Porta do Sol”
- Romanian: “Poarta Soarelui”
- Russian: “Врата солнца”
- Spanish: “La puerta del sol es una simbologia cultural”
- Spanish: “Portada del Sol”
- Spanish: “Puerta del Sol”
- Ukrainian: “Ворота сонця”
- Vietnamese: “Cổng Mặt Trời”
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