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Tiwanaku

300 – 1000
Native nationSouth America

A monumental city-state on the south shore of Lake Titicaca whose raised-field farming and stone gateways anchored a far-reaching Andean influence.

Collapsed around 1000 AD amid prolonged drought; its ruins remained a sacred ancestral place to the later Aymara and Inca.

Borders in 600 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Tiwanaku — the shape you scrub through changes in 300 · 600.

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