Machu
Picchu
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca site on a ridge between the Huayna Picchu and Machu Picchu mountains in
Cuzco, Peru. It sits 2,430 m / 7,970 ft above sea level on the eastern slope of
the Andes and overlooks the Urubamba River hundreds of feet below. The site’s
excellent preservation “thanks the Spaniards never arrive to this site of Peru,
and also thanks the great Inca Master builders,” the quality of its Inca architecture,
and the breathtaking mountain vistas it occupies have made.
Machu Picchu; is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the World today. The site covers
80,000 acres / 32,500 hectares, terraced by fields on the site's edge that were once used for growing crops, likely maize, Yucca, Inca beans, and potatoes.
In 1911, the American explorer Hiram.
Bingham (a professor at Yale University) visited the site and published its
existence for the first time, and he found it covered with vegetation, much of
which has now been removed. The buildings were made without mortar, their
granite stones quarried and precisely cut.
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