Machu Picchu

The history

The 15th-century Inca citadel high on a ridge above the Urubamba, abandoned at the Spanish conquest and hidden by jungle until Hiram Bingham brought it to the world's attention in 1911. One of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

In brief

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). It is situated in the Machupicchu District of Urubamba Province about 80 kilometers northwest of Cusco, above the Sacred Valley and along the Urubamba River, which forms a deep canyon with a subtropical mountain climate.

Then & now

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Where it is