Semi Underground Temple – Peace

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Semi Underground Temple – Peace

The Semi-Subterranean Temple is located east of the Kalasasaya temple, It is one of the first-rate monuments of the Tiwanaku Monumental Archaeological Complex, It is known as the “temple of a thousand faces”. It is located below the ground level of the surrounding area, whose interior patio corresponds to the period of splendor of the Tiahuanaco culture. Its walls have an average height of 2 metros, the access of 7 steps of asperón colorado is to the south; its base is 26 meters on its north and south walls, 28.47 meters on its east wall and 28.46 meters in the west. The walls are made up of 57 monolithic red sandstone pillars and ashlars, where they are located 175 heads, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, different from each other, mostly worked in limestone; which would correspond to a sample of the ethnic groups of the time, trophies of defeated enemies or a gallery of portraits of the notables of Tiahuanaco. Also notable is the drainage system currently in operation made using stone channels with a perfect slope of the 2% and that flows into a drain. The architectural style was used by other previous cultures such as Chiripa in Bolivia and the Pukara in Puno., Peru. The French Mission of Crequí-Montford, was the one who discovered the temple in 1903. In 1933 American researcher Wendell Bennett excavated two lithic sculptures: the Barbado or Kontiki monolith and the Pachamama, known as Bennett. During the decade of 1970 The temple was completely excavated and restored by the Bolivian researcher Carlos Ponce Sanjinés. In the center of the temple is the Barbado Monolith or Kontici Wiraqocha (lord of the waters, with beards and dressed in a long skirt), sculpted in sandstone rock accompanied by two smaller stelae.

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