Machu Picchu In Peru

Machu Picchu ( "Old Mountain" in the Quechua language, often called "the lost Inca City") is the location of a pre-Inca ruins, located in the Columbus area on the mountain height of about 2350 m above sea level. Machu Picchu is located above the Urubamba valley in Peru, about 70 km northwest Cusco.

Machu Picchu is a symbol of the Kingdom of the most famous INKA. Built around the year 1450, but abandoned a hundred years later, when the nation was successfully conquered the Kingdom of Spain INKA. This site was forgotten by the international, but not by local communities. Re-found this site by archeologists from Yale University Hiram Bingham III in the back to find tahun1911. Since then, Machu Picchu tours become the object of interest for tourists, both local and foreign.

Machu Picchu was built with style INKA with ancient stone walls berpelitur. Intihuatana is the main building, the Temple of Sun, and three room window. Places is called the sacred district of Machu Picchu.

Site has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, Machu Picchu is also one of the miracle of Seven New World, also received attention due to damage caused by tourism (the number of visitors reached 400,000 in 2003). In September 2007, Peru do businesses with the legal results that an agreement with Yale University to take back artifacts ever brought by Bingham's site in the early 20th century.