Archaeological Sites in Bolivia
City/town/settlement in Bolivia (9)
Inkachaka
An Inca archaeological site in Bolivia's Cochabamba Department, Chapare Province, Colomi Municipality. The name means "Inca bridge" in Quechua. The ruins feature stone walls and…
Inka Raqay
An Inca archaeological site near Sipe Sipe in Bolivia's Cochabamba Department, Quillacollo Province, near the community of Linku. The name means "Inca ruin" or "storehouse" in…
Iskanwaya
Iskanwaya is a pre-Columbian city built by the Mollo culture around 1100 AD, situated on a mountain ridge above the Llica River in Bolivia's Munecas Province, about 280 km north…
Isla del Sol
Isla del Sol (Island of the Sun) is a 14.3 sq km island in the Bolivian sector of Lake Titicaca with over 80 ruins, most dating to the 15th-century Inca period, though habitation…
Laqaya
Laqaya is the largest pre-Hispanic heritage complex in Bolivia, situated on the edge of the Salar de Uyuni in the Potosi Department. Declared a national archaeological monument by…
Llanos de Moxos (archaeology)
An extensive pre-Columbian archaeological landscape spanning much of Beni Department, Bolivia, with human presence dating back to approximately 8850 BCE. The remains include over…
Pachat'aqa
Pachat'aqa, also known as the Inca's Gallows, is a pre-Inca astronomical observatory located approximately 600 metres south of Copacabana, Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca. The site…
Pillkukayna
Pillkukayna is an Inca archaeological site on the shore of Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, located in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality.
Qhunqhu Wankani
Qhunqhu Wankani (also known as Khonkho Wankane) is a ceremonial centre in Bolivia founded in the late 1st century AD, predating the rise of the nearby city of Tiwanaku. Located…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Bolivia (4)
Iñaq Uyu
An Inca archaeological site on Isla de la Luna in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, also known as Aklla Wasi or "House of the Virgins of the Sun". Established between 1000 and 1500 CE, the…
Inka Murata
An archaeological site on the Altiplano of Bolivia, located in the Oruro Department, Litoral Province, Escara Municipality, in the community of Escara. The site features adjacent…
Jach'a Phasa
An archaeological site in the La Paz Department of Bolivia, situated at 4,126 m elevation atop a mountain in the Pacajes Province, Calacoto Municipality. The site features over 50…
Kuntur Amaya
Kuntur Amaya is an archaeological necropolis in Bolivia's La Paz Department, Aroma Province, Umala Municipality, near Wayllani. The site features chullpas—cylindrical stone tower…
Temple complex in Bolivia (3)
Chiripa Archaeological site
Chiripa is a Formative Period site on the Taraco Peninsula overlooking Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, occupied from c. 1400 to 100 BC. Its artificial mound (60 x 55 m, 6 m high)…
El Fuerte de Samaipata
El Fuerte de Samaipata is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Florida Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, in the eastern foothills…
Tiwanaku
Tiwanaku is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, about 70 kilometers from La Paz. Surface remains cover around 4 square kilometers (2.4 sq…
Megalithic stones in Bolivia (2)
Archaeological site Puma Punku
Pumapunku is a 6th-century T-shaped man-made terraced platform mound with a sunken court and monumental structure, located near Tiwanaku in the Andean highlands. Part of the…
Gate of the Sun
The Gate of the Sun is a monumental monolithic gateway carved from a single stone slab by the Tiwanaku culture at their archaeological site near Lake Titicaca in present-day…
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