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Tiwanaku (approximately from BC 200 to AD 1200) is said to have affected Inca. It's designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tiwanaku is 72 km to the west of La Paz. It's located on the plateau of an altitude 3,900m near Lake Titicaca.
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Tiwanaku Museum It's near the ruins entrance, and displays excavated stone statues and stone gates.
The Stone Gate displayed in the museum
Akapana Pyramid Ruins It's a reddish brown pyramidal hill approximately with 15 m tall, 210 m square.
Map of Tiwanaku Ruins
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Akapana
Kalasasaya surrounded by high stone walls is located at the north side of Akapana.
Walls surround the Kalasasaya Tiwanaku masonry technology is said to be not inferior to the end of Inca.
The Kalasasaya is a large courtyard 135 m by 130 m square and considered as the center of Tiwanaku Ruins.
Gate of the Sun （Puerta del Sol） It's in the Kalasasaya and made of the big single stone weighing about 5 tons.
Viracocha with forty eight birdmen is carved on the upper part of the gate. Viracocha is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology.
The stone statue of El Fraile
The stone statue of Ponce A lot of stone statues were found in Kalasasaya, now only two of them, the Ponce and the El Fraile, are left here.
The Ponce faces to the stone gate of a Kalasasaya entrance.
The stone gate as seen from outside of the Kalasasaya.
Semi-Subterranean Temple There is the Ponce in the stone gate in the Kalasasaya.
The Ponce standing exactly in the frame of the stone gate.
The statue of Kon-Tiki standing at the center of Semi-Subterranean Temple.
The Semi-Subterranean Temple measures 28m × 26 m, 1.7m deep.
video (38 sec) Around the Semi-Subterranean Temple
The headless statue standing alone out of Kalasasaya.
Llama around Tiwanaku Ruins
A street vendor selling souvenirs near Ruins
Lunch at the restaurant 'Pachamama' near Tiwanaku Ruins. Pachamama is a goddess of the Andean mythology.
A painting which expresses Pachamama on the wall in the restaurant.
Quinua soup Quinua is well-known as a traditional Andean food.
A dish of fried trout with some vegetables
Dessert and Coca tea
Leaves of coca Put this leaves in hot water to make coca tea
End of Tiahuanach Ruins. return to countries visited
