See Also: Tiwanaku(encyclopedia)
Tiwanaku(tourism)

Keres (iou) and Tiwanaku (sh)


Keres (iou)



Keres noun & adjective. Pl. of noun same. E19.
[Amer. Spanish Queres from Amer. Indian.]
Of or pertaining to, a member of, a Pueblo Indian people inhabiting parts of New Mexico; (of) the language of this people, forming the Keresan group.

Tiwanaku (sh)




or Tiwanacu Spanish Tiahuanaco

Major pre-Columbian Andean civilization known from the ruins of the same name near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.

The Tiwanaku civilization spread throughout large areas of Bolivia and Peru and parts of Argentina and Chile. The main site's earliest remains may date from งใ 200 BC-งใ AD 200 and its major buildings from งใ AD 600 to งใ 1000. Surviving artifacts include stelae, decorated pottery, and the famous Gateway of the Sun (Puerta del Sol), an ornamented doorway carved from a massive stone slab. Much of the culture's Success derived from its raised-field farming technique, in which elevated planting surfaces were separated by canals that retained the sun's heat during the cold nights and kept the crops from freezing. Algae that grew in the canals was used for fertilizer. The Tiwanaku culture vanished by 1200.