16.5563°S, 68.6728°W.
The Akapana pyramid at Tiwanaku, La Paz Department, Bolivia — the central platform pyramid of the Tiwanaku Empire that controlled the south-central Andes between approximately 500 and 900 CE. Original base 257 by 197 metres; original height 17 metres on seven terraces faced with dressed andesite blocks set in clay mortar. The pyramid is built in the form of a cross-shaped platform with a sunken central courtyard — a unique architectural plan in pre-Columbian South America. The substructure includes a sophisticated water-channel system of carved stone conduits designed to carry rainwater from the summit down through the body of the pyramid in a deliberate water-flow display. Excavated by Bolivian missions from the 1950s onward and by joint Bolivian–American projects since the 1980s. The Akapana sits within a larger Tiwanaku ceremonial centre that includes the Kalasasaya temple, the Gateway of the Sun, and the semi-subterranean temple.
A cross-shaped pyramid with a working internal water system, in the capital of an empire that controlled the Andes from Lake Titicaca to the Atacama Desert.
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