1500 BC to 1100

Tiwanaku

Farmers live around Lake Titicaca long before the common era. From about AD 500 the city of Tiwanaku, near the lake's southern shore, becomes the centre of a state whose influence reaches southern Peru, northern Chile and the eastern valleys. Its stone gateways and raised fields still stand. Tiwanaku declines around 1000 to 1100.