Tiwanaku is a village and municipality in the

La Paz Department, Bolivia The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises with a 2024 census population of 3,022,566 inhabitants. It is situated at the western border of Bolivia, sharing Lake Titicaca with the neighboring Peru. It contains the Cordillera Real (Bolivia), Cordi ...

. Towards the south of the village, there is the

pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European col ...

archaeological site of

Tiwanaku Tiwanaku ( or ) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, about 70 kilometers from La Paz, and it is one of the largest sites in South America. Surface remains currently cover around 4 square kilometers and in ...

. The village has about 1,000 inhabitants, mostly belonging to the

Aymara Aymara may refer to: Languages and people * Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language ** Aymara language, the main language within that family ** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...

ethnic group. According to the 2024 Bolivian census, the population of the municipality of Tiwanaku was 13,568 inhabitants.

Climate

Attractions

* The

archaeological site, including the

Tiwanaku Site Museum The Tiwanaku Site Museum is an archaeological museum located in Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia, near the Tiwanaku Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian archaeological site. It houses numerous funerary archaeological artifacts, ceramic pieces, and stone scu ...

and ceramic museum.

References

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Instituto Nacional de Estadistica de Bolivia (INE)
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