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PMR105K-09
Peru: Cusco/Cuzco/Qosqo (3300 metres a.s.l.), was occupied by the Killke people, from about 900 to 1200 AD, after which it became the capital city of the Incas. Inca legend has it that the city was built by Chief Pachacuti. In 1533 the Spanish arrived and largely rebuilt the city. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1983.

One of the many Irises in bloom on the Q'enqo site.
Keywords: High Andes, Cuzco, Qosqo, La Ciudad Imperial, The Imperial City, Historical Capital of Peru, colonial architecture, architecture, Iris

PMR105K-08
Peru: Cusco/Cuzco/Qosqo (3300 metres a.s.l.), was occupied by the Killke people, from about 900 to 1200 AD, after which it became the capital city of the Incas. Inca legend has it that the city was built by Chief Pachacuti. In 1533 the Spanish arrived and largely rebuilt the city. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1983.

Site of the Inca temple and amphitheatre Q'enqo, fine examples of Inca in situ stone carving.
Keywords: High Andes, Cuzco, Qosqo, La Ciudad Imperial, The Imperial City, Historical Capital of Peru, colonial architecture, architecture

PMR105K-07
Peru: Cusco/Cuzco/Qosqo (3300 metres a.s.l.), was occupied by the Killke people, from about 900 to 1200 AD, after which it became the capital city of the Incas. Inca legend has it that the city was built by Chief Pachacuti. In 1533 the Spanish arrived and largely rebuilt the city. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1983.

Bird's eye view of the Cathedral and the Compania de Jesus Church.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, colonial architecture, Historical Capital of Peru, The Imperial City, La Ciudad Imperial, Qosqo, Cuzco

PMR105K-06
Peru: Cusco/Cuzco/Qosqo (3300 metres a.s.l.), was occupied by the Killke people, from about 900 to 1200 AD, after which it became the capital city of the Incas. Inca legend has it that the city was built by Chief Pachacuti. In 1533 the Spanish arrived and largely rebuilt the city. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1983.

"Tres Cruces" (Three Crosses) and the white stone figure of Christ overlooking the city.
Keywords: High Andes, statue, architecture, colonial architecture, Historical Capital of Peru, The Imperial City, La Ciudad Imperial, Qosqo, Cuzco

PMR105K-05
Peru: Cusco/Cuzco/Qosqo (3300 metres a.s.l.), was occupied by the Killke people, from about 900 to 1200 AD, after which it became the capital city of the Incas. Inca legend has it that the city was built by Chief Pachacuti. In 1533 the Spanish arrived and largely rebuilt the city. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1983.

View of the city from the road to Sasayhuaman, where the figure of Christ stands.
Keywords: High Andes, panorama, architecture, colonial architecture, Historical Capital of Peru, The Imperial City, La Ciudad Imperial, Qosqo, Cuzco

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Peru, Departamento de Puno: La Raya (4335 metres), the highest pass on the road from Puno to Cusco: notice marking the end of the Región Puno and the start of Región Cusco, at 4335 metres a.s.l.
Keywords: High Andes, border, landscape

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Peru, Departamento de Puno: La Raya (4335 metres), the highest pass on the road from Puno to Cusco: three local children in colourful costumes with young llamas, by the Rotel bus.
Keywords: High Andes, house pets, fluffy pet llamas, Quechua children

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Peru, Departamento de Puno: La Raya (4335 metres), the highest pass on the road from Puno to Cusco: two local children in colourful costumes with fluffy young llamas.
Keywords: High Andes, fluffy house pets, Quechua children

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Peru, Departamento de Puno: La Raya (4335 metres), the highest pass on the road from Puno to Cusco: driver Marcus with local children and llama.
Keywords: High Andes, Quechua children, pet llama

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Juliaca: the market, with a "mototaxi".
Keywords: High Andes, picturesque, local transport

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Juliaca: the market, with a "tricitaxi".
Keywords: High Andes, picturesque, local transport

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Juliaca: the market.
Keywords: High Andes, picturesque

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: children from the neighbouring houses by the Rotel bus.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: close-up of llama with red woollen ear tag.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: the farmer's wife with her llama-wool rugs.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: sow with piglets and hive-shaped sty.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: guinea pig enclosure with sleeping quarters.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: stone cooking stove and earthenware vessels.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: llama cheese and bowls of traditional foods, including dehydrated and fresh potatoes.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: traditional llama-wool rugs made by the family, with the loom on the right.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: precisely-built stone welcome-arch topped with pottery bulls, the farmer's wife in the background.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Atuncolla: typical farmhouse of a Colla family: stone-built farmhouse with welcome-arch over the entrance, and two tethered llamas in the foreground.
Keywords: High Andes, farm life

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Sillustani: site of a number of pre-Inca chullpas or burial towers, built by the Colla people, Aymara who were conquered by the Inca about 1400 AD. To tie the connection between life and death the insides of the chullpas were shaped like a woman's uterus, and corpses were buried in a foetal position. The only openings to the towers face east, to the rising sun. The site is 3840 metres a.s.l.

"Torre de Lagartija" or "Lizard Tower", built of ashlars ca. 1500 AD, has a lizard in relief on the third stone from the ground.
Keywords: High Andes, historic burial site

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Sillustani: site of a number of pre-Inca chullpas or burial towers, built by the Colla people, Aymara who were conquered by the Inca about 1400 AD. To tie the connection between life and death the insides of the chullpas were shaped like a woman's uterus, and corpses were buried in a foetal position. The only openings to the towers face east, to the rising sun. The site is 3840 metres a.s.l.

The Lagoon of Umayo, from the lower burial area.
Keywords: High Andes, historic burial site

PMR104K-19
Peru, Departamento de Puno, Sillustani: site of a number of pre-Inca chullpas or burial towers, built by the Colla people, Aymara who were conquered by the Inca about 1400 AD. To tie the connection between life and death the insides of the chullpas were shaped like a woman's uterus, and corpses were buried in a foetal position. The only openings to the towers face east, to the rising sun. The site is 3840 metres a.s.l.

Two of the older chullpas, built of small, uncut stones.
Keywords: High Andes, historic burial site

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Sillustani: site of a number of pre-Inca chullpas or burial towers, built by the Colla people, Aymara who were conquered by the Inca about 1400 AD. To tie the connection between life and death the insides of the chullpas were shaped like a woman's uterus, and corpses were buried in a foetal position. The only openings to the towers face east, to the rising sun.

Approaching the chullpas, which are reflected in Umayo Lagoon.
Keywords: High Andes, historic burial site

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Juli: well maintained public gardens with red-hot-poker flowers in the Plaza Mayor.
Keywords: High Andes, historic village, picturesque

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Juli: a neglected house manifests some fine stone carving - view of the portal with carved columns, lintel and tympanum.
Keywords: High Andes, picturesque, historic village

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Peru, Departamento de Puno, Juli: a neglected house manifests some fine stone carving.
Keywords: High Andes, picturesque, historic village

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Peru, Departamento de Puno: Lake Titicaca, 3812 metres a.s.l., with fish-breeding nets and grazing cow.
Keywords: High Andes, picturesque, landscape

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Peru, Departamento de Puno: standing water in cultivated fields, with Lake Titicaca in the background.
Keywords: High Andes, picturesque, landscape

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Peru, Departamento de Puno: flooded fields reflect the clouds, with a first glimpse of Lake Titicaca behind.
Keywords: High Andes, landscape, picturesque

PMR104K-11
Peru, Departamento de Puno: arch of welcome to a Colla (Quechua) village. the church in the background is a good example of the local architecture.
Keywords: High Andes, church, religious architecture, landscape, picturesque

PMR104K-10
Bolivia, Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco: Ruins of the capital city of a great civilisation, dating back to 1500 BC, but becoming a centre of culture only about 300 BC. After about 400 AD the empire expanded to take in large parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia and Chile on the west coast. Their success was based on highly effective agricultural innovation. In about 1000 AD the civilisation was virtually wiped out by continuing drought, the remnants being incorporated into the Inca empire around 1450 AD. These people had no written language and their name is unknown.

Reconstructed base and steps of the Akapana man-made pyramid.
Keywords: High Andes, Tiahuanacu, excavations, archeology, historical site, archeological site

PMR104K-09
Bolivia, Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco: Ruins of the capital city of a great civilisation, dating back to 1500 BC, but becoming a centre of culture only about 300 BC. After about 400 AD the empire expanded to take in large parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia and Chile on the west coast. Their success was based on highly effective agricultural innovation. In about 1000 AD the civilisation was virtually wiped out by continuing drought, the remnants being incorporated into the Inca empire around 1450 AD. These people had no written language and their name is unknown.

View of the entire Kalasasaya area from the top of the Akapana Pyramid.
Keywords: High Andes, Tiahuanacu, excavations, archeology, historical site, archeological site

PMR104K-08
Bolivia, Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco: Ruins of the capital city of a great civilisation, dating back to 1500 BC, but becoming a centre of culture only about 300 BC. After about 400 AD the empire expanded to take in large parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia and Chile on the west coast. Their success was based on highly effective agricultural innovation. In about 1000 AD the civilisation was virtually wiped out by continuing drought, the remnants being incorporated into the Inca empire around 1450 AD. These people had no written language and their name is unknown.

The walls of the Kalasasaya, incorporating standing stones at regular intervals. (partially reconstructed)
Keywords: High Andes, Tiahuanacu, excavations, archeology, historical site, archeological site

PMR104K-07
Bolivia, Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco: Ruins of the capital city of a great civilisation, dating back to 1500 BC, but becoming a centre of culture only about 300 BC. After about 400 AD the empire expanded to take in large parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia and Chile on the west coast. Their success was based on highly effective agricultural innovation. In about 1000 AD the civilisation was virtually wiped out by continuing drought, the remnants being incorporated into the Inca empire around 1450 AD. These people had no written language and their name is unknown.

Cornerstone of the rectangular walls of the Kalasasaya. (partially reconstructed)
Keywords: High Andes, Tiahuanacu, excavations, archeology, historical site, archeological site

PMR104K-06
Bolivia, Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco: Ruins of the capital city of a great civilisation, dating back to 1500 BC, but becoming a centre of culture only about 300 BC. After about 400 AD the empire expanded to take in large parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia and Chile on the west coast. Their success was based on highly effective agricultural innovation. In about 1000 AD the civilisation was virtually wiped out by continuing drought, the remnants being incorporated into the Inca empire around 1450 AD. These people had no written language and their name is unknown.

The inside walls of the semi-subterranean temple are studded with 175 carved stone heads, all different.
Keywords: High Andes, archeological site, historical site, archeology, excavations, Tiahuanacu

PMR104K-05
Bolivia, Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco: Ruins of the capital city of a great civilisation, dating back to 1500 BC, but becoming a centre of culture only about 300 BC. After about 400 AD the empire expanded to take in large parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia and Chile on the west coast. Their success was based on highly effective agricultural innovation. In about 1000 AD the civilisation was virtually wiped out by continuing drought, the remnants being incorporated into the Inca empire around 1450 AD. These people had no written language and their name is unknown.

At the equinoxes the sun's rays shone through the main entrance to the Kalasasaya, on to the priest monolith. In the foreground the semi-subterranean temple.
Keywords: High Andes, Tiahuanacu, excavations, archeology, historical site, archeological site

PMR104K-04
Bolivia, Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco: Ruins of the capital city of a great civilisation, dating back to 1500 BC, but becoming a centre of culture only about 300 BC. After about 400 AD the empire expanded to take in large parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia and Chile on the west coast. Their success was based on highly effective agricultural innovation. In about 1000 AD the civilisation was virtually wiped out by continuing drought, the remnants being incorporated into the Inca empire around 1450 AD. These people had no written language and their name is unknown.

One of the remarkable walls of the "Temple of Standing Stones" or "Kalasasaya". (partially reconstructed)
Keywords: High Andes, Tiahuanacu, excavations, archeology, historical site, archeological site

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. A couple of Aymara people in traditional dress, on a bench enjoying ice creams, in the Plaza Murillo.
Keywords: High Andes, pigeons, native people, indigenas, street scene, architecture

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. A couple of Aymara people in traditional dress in the Plaza Murillo.
Keywords: High Andes, street scene, indigenas, native people

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Monument to Pedro Domingo Murillo (1757-1810), freedom fighter and native of the city, in the Plaza Murillo, with the Palacio Legislative behind.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, square, bronze statue, Legislative Palace

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Classical facade of the imposing Palacio Legislativo or Congreso Nacional, on Plaza Murillo.
Keywords: High Andes, National Congress, Legislative Palace, classical architecture, street scene, architecture

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. View of the lower city with the Parque Central and Mirador Laicacota from the top of the multi-storey building of the University of San Andrés (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés).
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, panorama, bird's eye view

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. View of the lower city from the top of the multi-storey building of the University of San Andrés (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés).
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, panorama, bird's eye view

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Equestrian statue of Simon Bolívar (1783-1830), known as "The Liberator", in the Avenida 16 de Julio (El Prado).
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, monument, national hero, bronze sculpture

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Colourful parade with stilt-walker to publicise an event in the city's art school.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, procession, publicity stunt

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Aymara ladies' protest march, alleging government neglect of their plight.
Keywords: High Andes, street scene, demonstration, anti government, banner, indigenas

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Protest march by the Aymara people, alleging government neglect of their plight.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, demonstration, anti government, banners

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Immaculate flower beds in the centre of Avenida de 16 de Julio (El Prado).
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, gardens, botanical tableau, ornanmental plants

PMR103K-25
Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Typical example of the well decorated local micro buses.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, bus, micro bus, local transport

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Facade of the Basilica of San Francisco, a prime example of "Barroco mestizo" in Bolivia.
Keywords: High Andes, street scene, religious architecture, colonial architecture, Baroque architecture

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Calle Sagárnaga, where a large assortment of colourful local textiles and handiwork is on offer.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, souvenirs, souvenir shops

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Basilica & Convento de San Francisco in Plaza San Francisco, where the saint is buried, is a fine example of colonial religious architecture.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, church, Catholic

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Palacio de los Condes de Arana (1775) now houses the Museo Nacional de Arte.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, museum, art gallery, palace

PMR103K-20
Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Plaza Murillo, with the Palacio Legislativo and Palacio Presidencial in the background.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, pigeons , square

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Catedral Metropolitana (Metropolitan Cathedral) and Plaza Murillo with its hundreds of pigeons.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, religious architecture, square

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Aymara people in traditional dress, in Plaza Murillo.
Keywords: High Andes, street scene, native people, indigenas

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Bolivia, Nuestra Senora de La Paz, at 3660 metres, the highest capital city in the world. Monument to Pedro Domingo Murillo (1757-1810), freedom fighter and native of the city, in the Plaza Murillo, the centre of La Paz.
Keywords: High Andes, architecture, street scene, statue, square

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