Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: TIAHUANACO

It is located to 3880m of altitude, to few kilometers of the Titicaca Lake, in the Bolivian plateau. “Tiwanaku” is one of the fundamental archaeological places of the pre-Columbian world. Its name means “city of the Gods”.

Constructed by the town aymara - according to some sources, this religious city, or ceremonial center, the capital of the pre-incaica civilization is considered being, perhaps, the oldest city of the world.

As it happens to many of the old sacred sites, their rest continue being an enigma between the investigators who speculate on on their origin and intention. There are some who find similarities him with Teotihuacan, in Mexico or then relates that it to the lost continent of the Atlantis, apparently, this city was a enquistado seaport in The $andes.

According to chronicles, when the Spaniards arrived at the control of Diego de Almagro, in 1535, remained astonished before the rest at their megalithic structures, some of whose stone blocks they weighed more than 100 tons. Also they spoke of the four pyramids that were next to the Palace of the Coffins, of that is not sign.

In this city in ruins there are gigantic monoliths, thicknesses stones worked, and great figures of arenaceous reddish and andesite. Tiahuanaco is legend place, felines and condors, man-bird, sagradas flames and solar temples.

It hardly has vegetation. This barren landscape is not, in fact, the adapted one for the development of great cultures, but all it makes suppose that not always it was thus, and that the mountain range did not have, in those times, the present height. Thus it could begin to be solved the mystery of Tiahuanaco, that had to arise in the days of one more a more benign climatology.

Tiahuanaco was conceived by great connoisseurs of astronomy who studied stars with apparatuses equivalent to modern telescopes, with reflectors and lenses. Also they dominated the geographic Earth axis, as they demonstrate the axes to it that leave from the pyramid of Akapana.

In addition, by very strange that seems, Tiahuanaco was soothes of a school of surgeons who conducted cerebral operations with bronze knives.