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Tiwanaku (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 16 33 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -16.5500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 068 42 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -68.7000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Ancient religious center located in a Bolivian highland valley 13,000 feet above sea level, on the broad altiplano bounded on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by the southern shore of Lake Titicaca, on the border between Bolivia and Peru. The Akapana pyramid mound is the central focal point of the site. The city flourished 500-950 CE, when religious artifacts from the city were dispersed across the southern Andes. When the conquering Inka arrived in the mid-fifteenth century, the site had been mysteriously abandoned for half a millennium. However, even after its abandonment, Tiwanaku continued to be an important religious site for the local people and the Inka Empire, and it is still an integral part of the religious lives of Andean people. The first Spanish chroniclers were amazed by the size and antiquity of the structures at Tiwanaku, some of them monolithic standing stones; consequently, the site became known as the "American Stonehenge" or the "Baalbek of the New World." |
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| Tiwanaku (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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| Tiwanacu (C,V)
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| Tiahuanaco (C,V)
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| Tiahuanacu (C,V)
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| American Stonehenge (C,V)
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| Baalbek of the New World (C,V)
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| טיוואנקו (C,U,Hebrew )
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Tiwanaku (deserted settlement) (P) |
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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| inhabited place (H) |
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| religious center (H) |
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| Pre-Columbian (H) |
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Tiahuanacu Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, South America) [6005946] |
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