This it is the way in which the leaders of Tiahuanaco showed their power on the most important natural force, the water. Also we find enormous monoliths (24 feet the major) of stone representing priests that maintain objects of worship (called vessels queros, seashells and canes). The most important monument of the precinct is the "Door of the Sun" adorned with the figure of "the God that cries" of Tiahuanaco. The God is flanked by images of its winged assistants (perhaps messenger, perhaps worshipers, perhaps symbolic figures of a calendar, at times with wings).. The door of the sun is worked from an enormous block of stone.

Tiahuanaco was a cultural and religious center with importance above all Peru. It controlled to a population of some a hundred thousand people out of the city, in the surrounding region, distributed in small populations. They spoke aymará. The legend says that Tiahuanaco is an ancient city, and the current investigators as Arthur Posnansky give it 14000 or 15000 years of antiquity (the old ruins would be under the ones that are conserved today). In Tiahuanaco have been found artifacts that suggest the use of drugs for religious rituals.

One of the mysteries of Tiahuanaco is its economy because is found in a place of great altitude, where they not the food abound neither the water. Besides the land is very saline. It seems that the inhabitants of the city built artificial agricultural fields near the lake Titicaca. On a base of stone, they sitd another layer of clay, on the one that established three layers of gravel. The final layer was of rich arable land. The lower layers served to avoid the excessive filtration of salt and also as barrier, so that the water of irrigation did not abandon the arable land. Ceramics they have been found and textiles of Tiahuanaco to large distances of the capital (a radio of 500 miles) for which thinks that a strong commercial activity served the inhabitants of the city to supplement its diet. The commerce was carried out by means of caravans of flames. The meat of flame was also splits of the diet in Tiahuanaco.

Tiahuanaco was a city built according to a concrete plan. The columnist Cieza of Lion visited it in the decade of 1550 and he praised it for his architecture, that is the finest one of Peru old. The city is to an enormous altitude, of more than 4000 meters. Before the 500 ad the deities of Tiahuanaco were you figure feline and reptilianas. Later, arose "the God that cries", present also in the ceramics Huari.