With the origin, the city of Tiwanaku did not occupy a total surface of 400 hectares, the current site does not make any more but 16 of them. Important administrative and religious center, the city was carefully planned. Its principal buildings are directed compared to north and one finds there a system of drains rather sophisticated. The temples and the pyramids were built with the lava of the Andes, the andesite. The houses were bricks;

Various sites and monuments:
Akapana
Pyramid in steps on seven levels. If it does not resemble one pyramid any more, except with certain places, this is fault of Ollaydeburo, an insatiable Spanish minor who dug so much in the hope to find gold there, that he made collapse partially the pyramid. Top, One has a very beautiful panoramic sight of the site.
Kalasasaya.
The most important temple and most monumental of Tiwanaku.
Carry Sun
Most known of the monuments précolombiens of Bolivia. Its plank constitutes the most beautiful example of art tiwanaku. It is said that it acts of an astronomical calendar.
Punku Puma
Pyramid, with seven doors of the Sun. The blocks of 150 tons were linked by metal tenons which weighed 15 kilos each one.