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Gate of the Sun

Tiwanaku: The Stone City on the Roof of the Andes

November 11, 2026 by Tommy Hayes
The Gate of the Sun at Tiwanaku, Bolivia — a massive carved stone doorway with a frieze of figures across its top, standing on the dry Altiplano under a clear blue sky

About 6 min readHigh on the Bolivian Altiplano, the builders of Tiwanaku raised a city of precisely cut stone more than a thousand years before the Inca — then, around 1000 CE, they abandoned it, and no one knows exactly why.

Categories Ancient Enigmas Tags Andes, Bolivia, Gate of the Sun, Lake Titicaca, Partially explained, Tiwanaku Leave a comment

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