Bolivia
Altiplano
La Paz

Tiwanaku

Tiwanaku is an archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage site in the of .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: archaeological site in Bolivia
  • Also known as: “Centro Espiritual y Político de la Cultura Tiahuanacu”, “Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture”, “Tiahuanaco”, and “Tiahuanacu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pumapunku and Sun Gate.

Photo: Brattarb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

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 that thrived around in the of western around 500-950 AD.

Photo: Anakin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The 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

Latitude
-16.5581° or 16° 33′ 29″ south
Longitude
-68.6741° or 68° 40′ 27″ west
Population
3,040
Elevation
3,860 metres (12,664 feet)
Open location code
57MHC8RG+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 74154888
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3903046
Wiki­data ID
Q61750
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tiwanaku” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المركز الروحي والسياسي لثقافة تيواناكو”
  • Arabic: “تياهواناكو”
  • Arabic: “تيواناكو”
  • Armenian: “Տիուանակո”
  • Asturian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Asturian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Aymara: “Taypiqala”
  • Aymara: “Tiwanaku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tiauanako”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tiuanako”
  • Bashkir: “Тиуанако”
  • Basque: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Basque: “Tiahuanacu”
  • Basque: “Tiahuanako kultura”
  • Basque: “Tiwanaku kultura”
  • Basque: “Tiwanaku”
  • Belarusian: “Тыўанака”
  • Bengali: “তিওয়ানাকু সভ্যতা”
  • Bosnian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Bulgarian: “Тиахуанако”
  • Bulgarian: “Тиуанако”
  • Catalan: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Catalan: “Tiwanacu”
  • Catalan: “Tiwanaku”
  • Cebuano: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Cebuano: “Tiwanaku”
  • Chinese: “Tiwanaku”
  • Chinese: “蒂亞瓦納庫”
  • Chinese: “蒂亞瓦納科”
  • Chinese: “蒂瓦納庫”
  • Chinese: “蒂瓦纳科文化的精神和政治中心”
  • Croatian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Croatian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Czech: “Tiahuanacu”
  • Czech: “Tihuanaco”
  • Czech: “Tiwanaku”
  • Danish: “Tiwanaku”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tiwanaku”
  • Dutch: “Spiritueel en politiek centrum van de Tiwanaku cultuur”
  • Dutch: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Dutch: “Tihuancu”
  • Dutch: “Tiwanaku”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيواناكو”
  • Esperanto: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Esperanto: “Tiwanaku”
  • Finnish: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Finnish: “Tihuanaco”
  • Finnish: “Tiwanaku”
  • French: “Centre spirituel et politique de la culture tiwanaku”
  • French: “Civilisation de Tiwanaku”
  • French: “Culture Tiwanaku”
  • French: “Tiahuanaco”
  • French: “Tiahuanacos”
  • French: “Tiahuanoco”
  • French: “Tihuanaco”
  • French: “Tiwanaco”
  • French: “Tiwanako”
  • French: “Tiwanaku”
  • Galician: “Tiwanaku”
  • Georgian: “ტიუანაკო”
  • Georgian: “ტიუანაკოს კულტურა”
  • German: “Tiahuanaco”
  • German: “Tihuanaco”
  • German: “Tiwanaku”
  • Greek: “Τιαουανάκο”
  • Greek: “Τιαουανάκου”
  • Greek: “Τιαχουανάκο”
  • Greek: “Τιουανάκο”
  • Greek: “Τιουανάκου”
  • Greek: “Τιχουανάκο”
  • Hebrew: “טיאהואנקו”
  • Hebrew: “טיוואנאקו”
  • Hebrew: “טיוונאקו”
  • Hindi: “तिवानाकु”
  • Hungarian: “Tiahuanaco-kultúra szellemi és politikai központja”
  • Hungarian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Hungarian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Indonesian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Indonesian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Italian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Italian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Japanese: “ティアワナコ”
  • Japanese: “ティワナク”
  • Japanese: “ティワナク文化”
  • Japanese: “ティワナク文化の宗教的・政治的中心地”
  • Kazakh: “Тиуанако”
  • Korean: “티아우아나코 제국”
  • Korean: “티아우아나코”
  • Korean: “티와나쿠”
  • Latin: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Latin: “Tihuanacum”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiahuanakas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiauanakas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tihuanakas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiuanakas”
  • Macedonian: “Тиванаку”
  • Malayalam: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Malayalam: “ടിയവ്നാകൊ”
  • Maltese: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Maltese: “Tiahuanacu”
  • Maltese: “Tiwanaku”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiwanaku”
  • Nepali: “तिवानाकु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiwanaku”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tiwanaku”
  • Norwegian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Norwegian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tiwanaku”
  • Persian: “تیاهواناکو”
  • Polish: “Kultura Tiwanaku”
  • Polish: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Polish: “Tiwanaku”
  • Portuguese: “Centro Espiritual e Político da Cultura Tiwanaku”
  • Portuguese: “Civilização Tiahuanaco”
  • Portuguese: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Portuguese: “Tiahuanacos”
  • Portuguese: “Tiauanaco”
  • Portuguese: “Tihuanaco”
  • Portuguese: “Tiwanaku”
  • Quechua: “Tiwanaku”
  • Romanian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Romanian: “Tihuanaco”
  • Romanian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Russian: “духовный и политический центр доиспанской индейской культуры”
  • Russian: “Тиауанако”
  • Russian: “Тиуанако”
  • Russian: “Тиуанаку”
  • Scots: “Tiwanaku”
  • Serbian: “Тиауанако”
  • Serbian: “Тијаванако”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Slovak: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Slovak: “Tiwanaku”
  • Slovenian: “Tiavanaku”
  • Slovenian: “Tivanaku”
  • Slovenian: “Tiwanaku”
  • Spanish: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Spanish: “Tiahuanacu”
  • Spanish: “Tiwanaku”
  • Swedish: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Swedish: “Tiwanaku”
  • Thai: “ตีวานากู”
  • Thai: “เตียอัวนากู”
  • Thai: “เตียอัวนาโก”
  • Turkish: “Tiahuanaco”
  • Turkish: “Tiahuanacu”
  • Turkish: “Tiwanaku”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіаванако”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіауанако”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіванако”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіванаку”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіуанако”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіуанаку”
  • Uzbek: “Tiauanako”
  • Uzbek: “Tiwanaku”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiwanaku”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tiwanaku”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒂亚瓦纳科”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒂瓦納庫”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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.