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Andes Mountains, Urubamba River valley - Cuzco region
The tall mountain behind the inca site is Wayna Picchu. The far left is the Sacred Plaza, you will find Intiwatana there.
Towards the bottom of the picture you can see the Principal Temple, the Temple of the Three Windows, and the Royal Houses.
Near the bottom the semi circular structure is the Temple of the Sun.
On the middle and right around the main Plaza there are gardens, prisons and residence for common people.
Machu Picchu, Peru, South America.
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A small bird landed on the window ledge of this small building within Machu Picchu!
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Ollantaytambo, Sacred Valley, Peru, South America.
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These are the largest known Inca ruins in Ecuador. The most significant building is the Temple of the Sun, an elliptically shaped building constructed around a large rock. The building is constructed in the Inca way without mortar, as are most of the structures in the complex. The stones were carefully chiseled and fashioned to fit together perfectly. The Temple of the Sun was positioned so that on the solstices, at exactly the right time of day, sunlight would fall through the center of the doorway of the small chamber at the top of the temple. Most of this chamber has fallen down.
Ingapirca had long been settled by the Cañari indigenous people, who called it Hatun Cañar. As the Inca Empire expanded into southern Ecuador, the Inca Túpac Yupanqui encountered the Cañari "Hatun Cañar" tribe and had difficulties in conquering them. In a second attempt, he used different political strategies, marrying the Cañari princess and improving the Cañari city of Guapondelig, calling it Pumapungo (nowadays Cuenca).
Machu Picchu, Peru
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The Inca ruines of Machu Picchu while shatters of the sun hit Huayna Picchu, the top mountain where Machu Picchu is build against.
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Puka Pukara is located in mid-southern Peru, roughly 7 kilometers from Cusco on the road to Pisac. The fort is located on high ground overlooking the Cusco valley and Tambo Machay, creating a beautiful - and useful - view. When it was built, it was probably placed so that these areas were visible to give the military extra vision over important parts of the Inca empire. Puka Pukara was probably constructed during the reign of Pachacutec. Since he was the ninth ruler of the empire, it can be said that it was one of the later Inca constructions. The stones used to build most of the walls are very irregularly shaped, stacked together in kind of a here-and-there manner to create walls that are functional, but lacking beauty as far as architecture goes (this is in contrast to a lot of other sites in the area). It is possible that the buildings and walls were built in somewhat of a rush because the military headquarters that Puka Pukara became was thought to be needed very quickly. When it was first built, the differently sized and shaped stones that now appear grey may have actually been a red color (hence its name, red fortress) due to all the iron in the limestone used in the walls.
A woman in traditional quechua dress walks down the Calle Roca at twilight, past the Inca-era 12-angle stone.
A woman in traditional quechua dress walks down the Calle Roca at twilight, past the Inca-era 12-angle stone.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
The Sacred Valley of the Incas or Urubamba Valley is a valley in the Andes of Peru, close to the Inca capital of Cusco and below the ancient sacred city of Machu Picchu. The valley is generally understood to include everything between PÃsac and Ollantaytambo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_valley_of_the_Incas
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
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Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Astonishing panoramic view of Machu Picchu ruins cloaked in early morning mist with Huayna Picchu in the background.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.
Machu Pikchu or Old Mountain is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level at the edge of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Andes Mountains. The Lost City of the Incas was built as the estate of Emperor Pachacuti (1438-1471) around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Bingham theorized that site was both the last city of the Inca, and also the legendary lost city of Vilcabamba la Vieja, which the last of the independent Inca rulers waged a lengthy battle against Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. He was wrong on this account, as archaeologists later discovered the actual last city was EspÃritu Pampa, a jungle site about 80 miles west of the Inca capital city of Cusco. Bingham did visit EspÃritu Pampa in 1911. However, he decided the site was not grand enough to be the legendary city. Most historians agree with Verano's interpretation of the Machu Picchu skeletons as a group of individuals who worked on a royal retreat under the fifteenth-century Inca Emperor Pachacuti. According to this theory, Machu Picchu was a place for Pachacuti and his royal court, or panaca, to relax, hunt, and entertain guests. The opening sequence of the 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot in the Machu Picchu area and on the stone stairway of Huayna Picchu.