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UTM N coordinates 8169556 – E 584853
Altitude 3870 m.s.n.m.
Temperatura mine. 6 OC – Max. 28 OC

Temple – Peace

Kaladaa is a Temple ceremonial, that presents a well-defined cardinal orientation and that according to archaeological investigations, it would have been the ceremonial center of the Tiwanaku Monumental Archaeological Complex. Kalasasaya derives from the Aymara voice Kala (piedra) y Me (stopped), What would “standing stones” mean?. It was built in the early classical urban period and was possibly contemporary with the Semisubterranean Temple..

Demonstrate advanced knowledge of astronomy, captured in the monumental structure of its balcony wall, which is why it is considered to have been dedicated to fertility or agricultural fecundity represented by Pachamama.. It has a rectangular floor plan made based on a construction system in which sandstone lithic columns were used as an enclosure., ashlars carved from the same material. The dimensions of the construction are 128.66 meters long on its walls from north to south, 119.06 wide on its walls from east to west and has an average height of 4.20 metros. The main access is made up of a staircase with seven steps facing east., where the first rays of the sun enter in the morning.

Archaeologist Posnansky suggests that the monumental stone columns would have been indicators of solar movement, which led to the proposal that Kalasasaya was a temple dedicated to marking various events of an astronomical nature., especially the different seasons of the year, since its corners and entrance demarcate the solstices and equinoxes with great precision.

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