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The Pucará culture was an archaeological culture which developed in Qullaw, along the north-western shore of Lake Titicaca. It was characterized by a hierarchy of smaller centers and villages scattered throughout the northern basin of the Titicaca. The name originates from the town of Pukara, one of the largest settlements in the region. [1]
Aramu Muru is an abandoned stone carving in Peru, near Lake Titicaca, known as “Gate of the Gods”.It was discovered in the early 1990s and is believed to be an abandoned Incan construction project.
As of 2011, about 1,200 Uros lived on an archipelago of 60 artificial islands, [52] clustering in the western corner of the lake near Puno, Titicaca's major Peruvian port town. [53] The islands have become one of Peru's tourist attractions, allowing the Uros to supplement their hunting and fishing by conveying visitors to the islands by ...
San Luis de Alba de Laicacota was a colonial mining settlement located near the city of Puno, Peru, on the shores of Lake Titicaca. [1] [2] Referred to usually as "San Luis de Alba" or just "Laicacota", the settlement was first recognized by the Spanish Crown as an official asiento mining settlement in AD 1665, when it was given ecclesiastical authority and its own priest. [1]
In general the climate is cool and humid to semi-arid and even arid, with mean annual temperatures that vary from 3 °C (37 °F) near the western mountain range to 12 °C (54 °F) near Lake Titicaca; and total annual rainfall that ranges between less than 200 mm (8 in) to the south west to more than 800 mm (31 in) near and over Lake Titicaca ...
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Marion is a city in and the county seat of Perry County, Alabama, United States. [2] As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 3,686, up 4.8% over 2000. First known as Muckle Ridge, the city was renamed for a hero of the American Revolution, Francis Marion.
Bay Minette is located near the center of Baldwin County in southern Alabama. It is sited on high ground 5 miles (8 km) east of the Mobile River/Tensaw River valley and 6 miles (10 km) west of the Florida border formed by the Perdido River. U.S. Route 31 passes through the center of the city.