🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Salar de Uyuni Hill Figures & Salt-Flat Geoglyphs
Formative to Middle Horizon (Lípez–Intersalar) · Lípez / Intersalar–early Tiwanaku
25+ hill and salar-margin geoglyphs (800 BCE–800 CE) guiding Lípez salt caravans at 3,656 m.
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🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Formative to Middle Horizon (Lípez–Intersalar) · Lípez / Intersalar–early Tiwanaku
25+ hill and salar-margin geoglyphs (800 BCE–800 CE) guiding Lípez salt caravans at 3,656 m.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Earthwork
Late Intermediate, Casarabe culture · Casarabe (Moxos) savanna farmers
1,000 km of causeways + 147 forest-island cities (500–1400 CE) in seasonally flooded Beni savanna.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Inca Late Horizon to Resistance 1463–1572 CE · Inca (Chinchaysuyu eastern frontier)
78-m kallanka—largest roofed Inca hall—within 2 km walled fortress, 1463–1572 CE.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Tiwanaku to Inca (~500–1532 CE; Inca reef 1400–1532 CE) · Tiwanaku and Inca
At 3,810 m – the world's highest navigable lake – divers from Atahuallpa 2000 and recent Belgian–Bolivian teams mapped an underwater reef off the Khoa beach of the Island of the Sun retaining Inca…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Formative to Imperial, 900 BCE–1500 CE active; origins possibly 1500 BCE · Aymara and pre-Aymara Andean; later Tiwanaku-Inca incorporation
Largest line network on Earth - 16,000 km of sacred Aymara pilgrimage lines.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Formative to Tiwanaku Period 300–1000 CE (flourishing 500–950) · Tiwanaku Empire
Capital of Tiwanaku Empire (300–1000 CE) on Altiplano near Lake Titicaca at 3,850 m, featuring Akapana pyramid, Kalasasaya enclosure, and Gateway of the Sun carved from single andesite blocks…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Megalith
Tiwanaku Period 536–600 CE (complex radiocarbon dated) · Tiwanaku
Terraced platform mound within Tiwanaku complex famous for precision-cut andesite and red sandstone blocks with drilled holes, flat planes and interlocking joints to 0.5 mm tolerance, scattered as if…
