Tiwanaku
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How it came to be
Tiwanaku sits near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca at about 3,850 m. Radiocarbon studies suggest settlement began around AD 110, and between 400 and 900 it grew into a planned capital of more than 10,000 people.
Nearly 50,000 raised fields fed the city, which built the Akapana pyramid and the Gate of the Sun. A drier climate around 1000 is thought to have weakened it, and the state had collapsed by the early 12th century.
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