The Templete Semi Subterraneo, the Semi Subterranean Temple, at the archaeological site at Tiwanaku, on the Altiplano in Bolivia

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The ancient ruined city of Tiwanaku lies on the Altiplano 70 kilometres west of La Paz in Bolivia. Founded around 1000BC it had become by 100BC the centre of a major empire that lasted almost a 1000 years and encompassed most of Bolivia southern Peru and northern Argentina and Chile. The Templete Semi Subterraneo, the Semi Subterranean Temple is a sunken rectangle area some two metres deep. The walls of the temple are studded with 200 stone carved heads

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