Tiwanaku is located near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca on the Altiplano, at an altitude of 3,850 meters above sea level. It began as a small settlement which later flourished into a planned city between 400 and 900, and was the spiritual and political center of the Tiwanaku Culture. At its peak around the year 800, the city had a population of between 10,000 and 20,000 people. Many of the remains of this ancient adobe city have been built over by the modern town of the same name. But in…
