Pumapunku

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.
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  • Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: terraced platform mound of the Tiwanaku culture
  • Also known as: “Puma Punku”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tiwanaku and Sun Gate.

Photo: Pipouchat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage site in the of .

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The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun, is a monolithic gateway at the site of Tiahuanaco by the culture, an Andean civilization of that thrived around in the of western around 500-950 AD. is situated 1 km northeast of Pumapunku.

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is an artificial platform mound at the pre-Columbian archaeological site of in , located in the department of . It is composed of seven levels of platforms contained by carved sandstone walls. is situated 1 km northeast of Pumapunku.

Pumapunku

Latitude
-16.56169° or 16° 33′ 42″ south
Longitude
-68.67945° or 68° 40′ 46″ west
Open location code
57MHC8QC+86
Open­Street­Map ID
way 155719393
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q665223
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Pumapunku” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوما بونكو”
  • Bashkir: “Пума Пунку”
  • Bulgarian: “Пумапунку”
  • Catalan: “Pumapunku”
  • Chinese: “普瑪彭古”
  • Croatian: “Pumapunku”
  • Czech: “Puma Punku”
  • Czech: “Pumapunku”
  • Dutch: “Pumapunku”
  • French: “Pumapunku”
  • German: “Puma punku”
  • German: “Pumapunku”
  • Hebrew: “פומה פונקו”
  • Indonesian: “Pumapunku”
  • Italian: “Pumapunku”
  • Korean: “푸마 푼쿠”
  • Malay: “Pumapunku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pumapunku”
  • Norwegian: “Pumapunku”
  • Persian: “پوما پونکو”
  • Persian: “پوماپونکو”
  • Polish: “Puma Punku”
  • Portuguese: “Puma Punku”
  • Romanian: “Pumapunku”
  • Russian: “Пума Пунку”
  • Russian: “Пума-Пунку”
  • Slovenian: “Pumapunku”
  • Spanish: “Puma Punku”
  • Turkish: “Puma Punku”
  • Turkish: “Pumapunku”
  • Ukrainian: “Пума Пунку”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pumapunku”

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Highlights include H Blocks and Stone Conduit.

Nearby Places

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