Huayna Picchu

Machu Picchu is located on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. It was built around 1450 CE and is often called “The Lost City of the Incas”. The city is invisible from below and designed like many Incan monuments, meant to be seen from “Hanan Pacha (Higher World) as an offering and devotion to the guardian deities”. These deities are Water, Sun, and Mother Earth. This location was chosen by the great emperor and he ordered that a stone city be built that would please the gods and

Machu Picchu, a ruin in the Andes Mountains of Peru, housed mysterious peoples. Over the years we have guessed and guessed about who these people where, why did build what they build, and how they build it. Also, why it was abandoned. The beautiful stone structures has altars, temples, houses, fountains (16 in total and a great source of drinking water), terraces and more. It all surrounds big green areas, and no clues or carvings are found about the pasts. The highest point of the “village” is the

The City of Cuzco was a complex urban center with distinct religious and administrative functions. It was surrounded by clearly defined areas for agricultural, artisan, and industrial production. Besides the religious and government buildings, there were also exclusive abodes for royal families, which formed an unprecedented symbolic urban compound. This compound showed a stone construction technology with remarkable aesthetic and structural properties, such as the Temple of the Sun or Qoricancha

Machu Picchu is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. According to machupicchu.org, “The Lost City of Machu Picchu is a mysterious wonder; the Incas built there a city of stone, without the aid of wheels or iron tools. This is the best example of Inca engineering.” I find it interesting that Machu Picchu was abandoned for 400 years. I will describe the theories of why Machu Picchu came to be and was abandoned. Scholars believe Machu Picchu was built for King Pachacutec around 1450. Machu

Pachacutec, the Great Emperor of the Inca Empire Nowadays, we are speaking at an international level of the greatness and mystery that Machu Picchu represents, considered a monument of humanity. Likewise, Machu Picchu is considered a monument to the greatness of the Inca Empire whose history, culture, agriculture, monumental military and religious constructions, and great legacy to humanity surprise many of us. But who was the ruler who made this kingdom a great empire? His name was Cusi Yupanqui

The archaeological site of Machu Picchu, unearthed to the world due to a discovery made by Hiram Bingham in 1911, is renowned worldwide for the mystery surrounding its construction and for its remarkable feats in architecture and engineering. It is not only South America’s greatest attraction but has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1983), and was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007. This historical site should receive a grant from The United Nations Committee

The country I am doing is Peru. Peru happens to be my home country. I was Born there and lived there for about four years. On the map of the world, Peru is located in the west of South America, and has borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile. In 1532, a man by the name of Francisco Pizarro, found and conquered Peru, but he was not the first man to be on Peru. According to, www.biography.com, “Incas have been living on peru since the beginning of time.” The flag of Peru, is one of

Machu Picchu The sacred city of Machu Picchu (in Quechua: old mountain) is the greatest Inca masterpiece. Incredibly daring and inventive, it was built on the most difficult, wild and inaccessible mountain area available. It is known world-wide not only for its impressive and unique ruins, but also for its unusual location on the edge of an abyss, from which one can appreciate the vigorous waters of the Urubamba river. I wonder how the Incas were able to carry the huge blocks of stone to

achievements worth looking at. For example Machu Picchu is a wonder of the world, just like Great Wall of China or the Pyramids of Giza. That is because this place was built on one of the highest mountain in the world. We would have trouble just breathing on top of the mountain. With the Incans they managed to build a whole city on top of the mountain and live there. I mean even when the Spanish were conquering Americas they stopped at Machu Picchu since it was too high to climb. Incan were a complex

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