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Machu Picchu Research Paper

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Machu Picchu is a world-renowned archaeological site, and has many interesting and pulling facets. Machu Picchu is an ancient Incan city, that was rediscovered in 1911. The city had before only been found by Spanish conquerors in the 1530s. The city is near other ancient Inca sites, with one sixty miles away and one at Espíritu Pampa.

Machu Picchu is significant as travel destination because of its archaeological splendor and its surrounding nature. According to “The Stones of Machu Picchu” by Duane Damon, “Each year, thousands of fascinated visitors come to the ‘city in the clouds’ to look, reflect, and to wonder,” (Damon,Paragraph Seven). The area surrounding Machu Picchu is “the meeting point between the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon

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