Mollo

The Mollo were a pre-Inca people of the eastern cordillera of the Bolivian altiplano, who arose after the collapse of Tiwanaku and flourished between roughly 1000 and 1450. Their villages kept the domestic architecture of late Tiwanaku but built no pyramids, and they worshipped the jaguar.

Their largest settlement was Iskanwaya, a stone town on a ridge above the Llica River with more than a hundred masonry buildings, houses grouped around patios, reservoirs and irrigation canals to water terraced fields. Mollo power faded with the Inca advance into the region; the Incas are thought to have absorbed the Mollo and adopted some of their building techniques.