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


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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