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Tiwanaku Municipality
Tiwanaku Municipality is the third Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Ingavi Province in the La Paz Department (Bolivia), La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is the village of Tiwanaku, La Paz, Tiwanaku located near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tiwanaku. Cantons The municipality is divided into three cantons. They are (their seats in parentheses): * Huacullani - (Huacullani) * Pillapi San Agustín - (Pillapi San Agustín) * Tiwanaku - (Tiwanaku village) The people The people are predominantly Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous citizens of Aymara people, Aymara descent. Some data: Languages The languages spoken in the Tiwanaku Municipality are mainly Aymara and Spanish. Tourist attractions Some of the tourist attractions of the municipality are:www.gobernacionl ...
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Ponce Monolith
The Ponce Monolith, also known as the Ponce Stela, is a monumental stone sculpture from the pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Tiwanaku polity, Tiwanaku civilization. It is located in the Kalasasaya area of the Tiwanaku, ruins of Tiwanaku in Bolivia. The statue holds a ''qiru'' in their left hand and a snuff tray in their right. The monolith was discovered by Spaniards, who carved a cross on the shoulder of the monument and left it buried. It was named after Bolivian archaeologist Carlos Ponce Sanginés, who headed the archaeology team that exhumed it in 1957. It is the second largest monolith discovered in that area, after the Bennett Monolith. In 2019, a series of new banknotes was introduced into circulation in Bolivia. On the reverse of the 200 Bolivian boliviano, boliviano note is the site of Kalasasaya with a view of the Ponce Monolith. The stela also appeared on a 1960 postage stamp. References

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Moxos People
Moxos may refer to: * Moxos plains, or ''Llanos de Moxos'', a region of Bolivia * Moxos Province, Bolivia * Moxo people, an indigenous people of Bolivia * Llanos de Moxos (archaeology) * Jesuit Missions of Moxos * Moxoene, or Moxos, an ancient Armenian province {{Disambig ...
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Nasa Puqi
Nasa Puqi ( Aymara ''nasa'' nose, ''puqi'' crumb, "nose crumb", also spelled ''Nasa Poke'') is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia. It is located in the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range south-east of Wiñaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lake Titicaca. It lies in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Tiwanaku Municipality Tiwanaku Municipality is the third Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Ingavi Province in the La Paz Department (Bolivia), La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is the village of Tiwanaku, La Paz, Tiwanaku located near the UNESCO W .... Nasa Puqi is situated north of the mountains Chuqi Ch'iwani and Kimsa Chata. See also * Tiwanaku River References Mountains of La Paz Department (Bolivia) Four-thousanders of the Andes {{IngaviProvince-geo-stub ...
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Laqaya (La Paz)
Laqaya ( Aymara for ruins of a building, also spelled ''Lakaya'') is a mountain in the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, at the border of the Jesús de Machaca Municipality and the Tiwanaku Municipality Tiwanaku Municipality is the third Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Ingavi Province in the La Paz Department (Bolivia), La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is the village of Tiwanaku, La Paz, Tiwanaku located near the UNESCO W .... (unnamed) References Mountains of La Paz Department (Bolivia) Four-thousanders of the Andes {{IngaviProvince-geo-stub ...
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Ch'alla Jawira (Ingavi)
The Ch'alla Jawira ( Aymara ''ch'alla'' sand, ''jawira'' river, "sand river", also spelled ''Challa Jahuira'') is a river in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is a left tributary of the Tiwanaku River which empties into Wiñaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lake Titicaca. The Ch'alla Jawira originates from various intermittent streams of the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range northeast, north and northwest of the peak of Kimsa Chata in the Ingavi Province, Tiwanaku Municipality. Its direction is mainly to the north. The confluence with the Tiwanaku River is northwest of the UNESCO World Heritage Site World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an treaty, international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural ... of Tiwanaku at . References Rivers of La Paz Department (Bolivia) {{Bolivia-river-stub ...
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Chuqi Ch'iwani
Chuqi Ch'iwani ( Aymara ''chuqi'' gold, ''ch'iwa'' edible, cooked leaves, ''-ni'' a suffix to indicate ownership, Hispanicized spelling ''Choque Chihuani'') is a mountain in the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range in the Andes of Bolivia. It lies south-east of Wiñaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lake Titicaca. It is located in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, at the border of the Jesús de Machaca Municipality and the Tiwanaku Municipality. Chuqi Ch'iwani is situated south of the mountains Nasa Puqi Nasa Puqi ( Aymara ''nasa'' nose, ''puqi'' crumb, "nose crumb", also spelled ''Nasa Poke'') is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia. It is located in the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range south-east of Wiñaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lak ... and Kimsa Chata. See also * Tiwanaku River References Mountains of La Paz Department (Bolivia) Four-thousanders of the Andes {{IngaviProvince-geo-stub ...
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Kimsa Chata (Ingavi)
Kimsa Chata, also spelled Kimsachata, ( Aymara and Quechua ''kimsa'' three, Pukina ''chata'' mountain, "three mountains", spellings ''Quimsachata, Quimsa Chata'') is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia. It is located in the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range south-east of Wiñaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lake Titicaca. It lies in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Tiwanaku Municipality, about 15 km south of the archaeological site of Tiwanaku and the village of the same name. Kimsa Chata is situated between the mountains Nasa Puqi in the north and Chuqi Ch'iwani Chuqi Ch'iwani ( Aymara ''chuqi'' gold, ''ch'iwa'' edible, cooked leaves, ''-ni'' a suffix to indicate ownership, Hispanicized spelling ''Choque Chihuani'') is a mountain in the Chilla-Kimsa Chata mountain range in the Andes of Bolivia. It lies ... in the south.Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Tiahuanacu 5844-II Kimsa Chata is a ceremonial and sacred mountain of the Aymara people.
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Willkakuti
Willkakuti ( Aymara for Return of the Sun), Machaq Mara (Aymara for New Year), Mara T'aqa, Jach'a Laymi or Pacha Kuti (in Spanish named ''Año Nuevo Andino Amazónico'' (Andean-Amazonic New Year)) is an Aymara celebration in Bolivia, Chile and the Puno Region of Southern Peru which takes place annually on 21 June, commemorating the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. It was declared a national holiday in Bolivia in 2009 by the government of Evo Morales. In 2013, when the year 5521 of the Aymara calendar was marked, Willkakuti was celebrated in more than 200 places, among them Inkallaqta, Inka Raqay, Samaypata and Uyuni. Its major celebration hub is Tiwanaku. See also * Inti Punku (Gate of the Sun) *Indigenous peoples of the Americas In the Americas, Indigenous peoples comprise the two continents' pre-Columbian inhabitants, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with them in the 15th century, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with the pre-Columbia ...
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Spanish Language
Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, global language with 483 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 558 million speakers total, including second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries, as well as one of the Official languages of the United Nations, six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language ...
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Guaraní Language
Guarani (Avañe'ẽ), also called Paraguayan Guarani, is a language of South America that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian language family. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish), where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language. Variants of the language are spoken by communities in neighboring countries including parts of northeastern Argentina, southeastern Bolivia and southwestern Brazil. It is a second official language of the Argentine province of Corrientes since 2004 and in the Brazilian city of Tacuru since 2010. Guarani is also one of the three official languages of Mercosur, alongside Spanish and Portuguese. Guarani is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages and remains commonly used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities. This is unique among American languages; language shift towards Eu ...
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Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran languages, Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Indigenous languages of the Americas, Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guarani language, Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish language, Spanish and Quechua language, Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a Minority language, recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua languages, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal feature (linguistics), areal ...
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Quechua Languages
Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" language, it is today the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with the number of speakers estimated at 8–10 million speakers in 2004,Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. and just under 7 million from the most recent census data available up to 2011. Approximately 13.9% (3.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechua language. Although Quechua began expanding many centuries before the Incas, that previous expansion also meant that it was the primary language family within the Inca Empire. The Spanish also tolerated its use until the Peruvian struggle for independence in the 1780s. As a result, various Quechua languages are still widely spoken today, being co-official in many regions and the most spoken language in ...
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