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Isla del Sol (Spanish for "Island of the Sun") is an island in the southern part of Lake Titicaca. It is part of Bolivia, and specifically part of the La Paz Department. Geographically, the terrain is harsh; it is a rocky, hilly island with many eucalyptus trees. There are no motor vehicles or paved roads on the island.
Chinkana (Quechua for labyrinth) [1] is an archaeological site in Bolivia situated on the Isla del Sol, an island of Lake Titicaca. [2] It is located in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality.
View from the Isla del Sol to the Yampupata Península in the background and Chelleca island on the left View of the Yampupata Peninsula in the background with Isla del Sol ("sun island") in the foreground Map showing Isla del Sol, the Strait of Yampupata and Yampupata Peninsula in Lake Titicaca
Stanish argues that the logical explanation for the origin of the name Titicaca is a corruption of the term thakhsi cala, which is the 15th- to the 16th-century name of the sacred rock on the Isla del Sol. [25] Given the lack of a common name for Lake Titicaca in the 16th century, the Spaniards are thought to have used the name of the site of ...
Pillkukayna [1] (other spellings Pilco Kayna, Pilcocayna, Pilko Kaina, Pilkokaina, Pillco Kayma) is an archaeological site on the shore of the island of Isla del Sol in the southern part of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. [2] It is situated in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality. [3]
Sun Island may refer to: . Sun Island, one of two main exhibition areas for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival; Isla del Sol (Sun Island), an island in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.
Temple on Isla del Sol (as seen in 1887) where the mummified body of Manco Cápac came to rest. Manqu Qhapaq died of a natural death and left his son, Sinchi Roca, as his successor in Cusco. His body was mummified and remained in the city until the reign of Pachacuti, who ordered its removal to the Temple of the Sun on Isla del Sol. In Cusco ...
It is close to Isla del Sol and Isla de la Luna, islands sacred to the Aymara and Quechua. In the mid 16th century, the inhabitants of Copacabana were divided into two groups: Anansayas (Inca newcomers) and Urinsayas (the traditional residents of the region). Despite conversion to Christianity, they continued an attachment to their original ...