{"id":3921474,"date":"2025-08-15T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/30-facts-you-didnt-know-about-puma-punku\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:03:30","slug":"30-facts-you-didnt-know-about-puma-punku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/30-facts-you-didnt-know-about-puma-punku\/","title":{"rendered":"30 facts you didn\u2019t know about Puma Punku"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This temple complex located near\u00a0Tiwanaku, Bolivia is one of the most incredible ancient ruins you will find in South America. At a distance of around 45 miles west of La Paz Bolivia we find one of the most magnificent ancient sites on the surface of our planet.<\/p>\n

The sheer number of megalithic stones found at Puma Punku<\/a><\/strong> are amongst the largest found on the planet. Puma Punku shatters all traditional views on ancient cultures. The incredibly precise stones, precision cuts, and polished surfaces have defied explanation for centuries. The andesite stones used in the construction process of this megalithic site were cut with such precision that they fit together perfectly, and are interlocked with each other without the use of mortar.<\/p>\n

This ancient site continues to defy the countless theories put forth by mainstream scholars, historians, and scientists. This ancient site\u2014together with other sites like Teotihuacan in modern day Mexico, the Giza plateau in Egypt, Ollantaytambo, and Sacsayhuaman, among others\u2014is what I like to call an ancient Wikipedia site since it offers us countless details about our ancestors, their lives, ability, knowledge, and skills.<\/p>\n

In this article, we bring you 30 mind-bending facts about Puma Punku that you probably have never read about before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This fascinating ancient \u2018alien\u2019 complex is located just 45 miles west of La Paz, high in the Andean mountains.<\/p>\n

Puma Punku<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is located at an altitude of 12,800 feet\u2014this makes it even harder to explain how the ancient quarried, transported and put into position the massive rocks as Puma Punku is located ABOVE the natural tree line, which in turn means NO\u00a0trees grew in that area which means that\u00a0no trees were cut down in order to use wooden rollers.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, there is no evidence of the wheel in Tiwanakan culture.<\/p>\n

Puma Punku is believed to date to around 536AD. However, many authors argue that the site is much older and could predate the Inca themselves.<\/p>\n

Puma Punku was never complete. Experts argue that the site was abandoned before it was completely finished.<\/p>\n

It is important to note Inca themselves denied building the Tiahuanaco complex which means that the Tiahuanaco culture existed INDEPENDENTLY of the Inca, predating them as well.<\/p>\n

The ancient site of Puma Punku is part of an even larger complex that once belonged to the ancient Tiahuanaco culture, which predates the ancient Inca by millennia.<\/p>\n

The sheer number of megalithic stones found at Puma Punku are amongst the largest found on the planet. The incredibly precise stones, precision cuts, and polished surfaces have defied explanation for centuries.<\/p>\n

According to oral legends, the first inhabitants of Puma Punku were unlike ordinary humans and supernatural powers which allowed them to \u2018carry\u2019 megalithic stones through the air with the use of SOUND.<\/p>\n

Among the largest stone blocks found at Puma Punku we can find one with the following characteristics:\u00a07.81\u00a0meters long, 5.17\u00a0meters wide, averages 1.07\u00a0meters thick, and is estimated to weigh about 131\u00a0metric tons.<\/p>\n

The second largest stone block found within the Puma Punku is 7.90\u00a0meters long, 2.50\u00a0meters wide, and averages 1.86\u00a0meters thick. Its weight has been estimated to be 85.21\u00a0metric tons.<\/p>\n

The most famous features of Puma Punku are its so-called H-Blocks.<\/p>\n

The H blocks at Puma Punku have approximately 80 faces each. The H blocks match each other with such an extreme precision that the architects most likely used a system of preferred measurements and proportions.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists argue that the transport of these stones was accomplished by the large\u00a0labor force\u00a0of ancient Tiwanaku.<\/p>\n

Several theories have been proposed as to how this labor force transported the stones, although these theories remain speculative. Two of the more common proposals involve the use of\u00a0llama\u00a0skin ropes and the use of ramps and\u00a0inclined planes.<\/p>\n

In addition to somehow transporting massive blocks of stone across great distances, the ancient engineers that built Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco \u00a0were also adept at developing a civic infrastructure at this complex, constructing functional irrigation systems, hydraulic mechanisms, and waterproof sewage lines.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the blocks present at Puma Punku were so precisely cut as to suggest the possibility of prefabrication and\u00a0mass production, technologies far in advance of the Tiwanaku\u2019s Inca successors hundreds of years later.<\/p>\n

Researchers believe that these two blocks of stone were quarried near Lake Titicaca approx. 10 km from Puma Punku.<\/p>\n

Other stone blocks found at Puma Punku have been quarried\u00a0near the Copacabana Peninsula about 90\u00a0km away from and across Lake Titicaca. So perhaps this is one of the biggest mysteries at Puma Punku.<\/p>\n

Each stone at Puma Punku was finely cut to interlock with the surrounding stones and the blocks fit together like a puzzle,\u00a0forming load-bearing joints without the use of mortar. The precision challenges today\u2019s engineering abilities.<\/p>\n

A common engineering technique is to\u00a0cut the top of the lower stone at a certain angle and placing another stone\u00a0on top of it which was cut at the same angle. What baffles scientists, engineers and archaeologists is the precision with which this was achieved.\u00a0The precision with which these angles have been utilized to create flush joints is indicative of a highly sophisticated knowledge of stone-cutting and a thorough understanding of descriptive geometry.<\/p>\n

Some of the joins we find at Puma Punku are so well placed, and so precisely locked into place that you\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0be able to fit a paper in between them. The level of masonry we find at Puma Punku is just amazing.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Aymara\u2014an\u00a0Aymaran\u00a0language spoken by the\u00a0Aymara people\u00a0of the\u00a0Andes\u2014Puma Punku\u2019s name means \u201cThe Door of the Puma\u201d.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0Puma Punku<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0you will find incredible stones with perfect right angles, almost smooth as glass, this makes\u00a0Puma Punku<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0unique. Only few places on earth display this type of stone work.<\/p>\n

Tiahuanaco is located near\u00a0Puma Punku<\/em><\/strong>, in fact, it\u2019s less than a quarter mile northeast of\u00a0Puma Punku<\/em><\/strong>. Scientists believe Tiahuanaco was once the center of a civilization with more than 40,000 inhabitants. Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco are part of a large temple complex or monument group.<\/p>\n

At its peak, Pumapunku is thought to have been \u201cunimaginably wondrous,\u201d adorned with polished metal plaques, brightly colored ceramic and fabric ornamentation, and visited by costumed citizens, elaborately dressed priests, and elites decked in exotic jewelry.<\/p>\n

The Puma Punku complex, as well as its surrounding temples, the Akapana pyramid, Kalasasaya, Putuni, and Kerikala, functioned as spiritual and ritual centers for the Tiwanaku.<\/p>\n

Tiahuanaco is probably the greatest Native American civilization that many people haven\u2019t heard of.<\/p>\n

The Tiwanaku civilization\u2014which Puma Punku belonged to\u2014appears to some to have peaked from 700 AD to 1000 AD, by which point the temples and surrounding area may have been home to some 400,000 people.<\/p>\n

Curiously, as many other advanced civilizations across the Americas, this culture seems to have dissolved rather abruptly sometime around 1000 AD, and researchers are still seeking answers as to why.<\/p>\n

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Reference:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians<\/a>. vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 146-167<\/p>\n

Young-S\u00e1nchez, Margaret (2004).\u00a0Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca<\/a>. Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum.<\/p>\n

Vranich, A., 1999,\u00a0Interpreting the Meaning of Ritual Spaces: The Temple Complex of Pumapunku, Tiwanaku, Bolivia.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This temple complex located near Tiwanaku, Bolivia is one of the most incredible ancient ruins you will find in South America. At a distance of around 45 miles west of La Paz Bolivia we find one of the most magnificent ancient sites on the surface of our planet.<\/p>\n

The sheer number of megalithic stones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}