Illustration. by dan merino. published on 01 march 2014. download full size image. the inca site of machu picchu built by pachacuti inca yupanqui (1438 71 ce). fortress, sanctuary, and once home to around 1,000 residents, the site is perched in the high andes above the river urubamba. remove ads. advertisement. Illustration. by richard twigg. published on 02 january 2015. download full size image. the inca site of machu picchu built by pachacuti inca yupanqui (1438 71 ce). fortress, sanctuary, and once home to around 1,000 residents, the site is perched in the high andes above the river urubamba. remove ads.
It is perched above the urubamba river valley in a narrow saddle between two sharp peaks—machu picchu (“old peak”) and huayna picchu (“new peak”)—at an elevation of 7,710 feet (2,350 metres). one of the few major pre columbian ruins found nearly intact, machu picchu was designated a unesco world heritage site in 1983. Machu picchu today . a unesco world heritage site since 1983 and designated one of the new seven wonders of the world in 2007, machu picchu is peru’s most visited attraction and south america. Machu picchu is an inca royal estate built around 1450 ce in an ethereal cloud forest in the southern peruvian highlands. constructed during inca pachacuti’s reign and abandoned soon after spanish conquistadors arrived in the andes in 1531, the site remained largely unknown to the western world until july 24, 1911, when hiram bingham and a yale university expedition entered the overgrown. Explore historic sanctuary of machu picchu in google earth.
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