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Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture

Bolivia
Date of Inscription: 2000
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
Province of Ingavi, Department of La Paz
S16 33 30 W68 40 40
Ref: 567rev

Brief Description

The city of Tiwanaku, capital of a powerful pre-Hispanic empire that dominated a large area of the southern Andes and beyond, reached its apogee between 500 and 900 AD. Its monumental remains testify to the cultural and political significance of this civilisation, which is distinct from any of the other pre-Hispanic empires of the Americas.