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Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
| Site number: | 274 |
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| Type of site: | Mixed | |
| Date: | 1400 AD | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1983 | |
| Location: | South America, Peru, department of Cuzco, Urubamba Province, District of Macchu Picchu | |
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| Description: | Standing 2,430 m above sea-level in the middle of a tropical mountain forest is Machu Picchu perfectly resting within an astonishingly striking setting. Built at the height of the Inca Empire it was almost certainly the civilization’s most amazing urban creation; its giant walls, terraces and ramps give the impression of being naturally cut within the continuous rock escarpments. The natural location, on the eastern Andean slopes, covers the upper Amazon basin with its affluent diversity of flora and fauna. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca site located at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft) above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire. It was built around the year 1450 and abandoned a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Forgotten for centuries by all except for a few locals, the site was brought to worldwide attention in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, an American historian. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction, it was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Machu Picchu was built in a classic Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Windows located in what is known by archaeologist as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. There are concerns about the impact of tourism to the site as its visitors reached 400,000 in 2003. On September 2007, Peru and Yale University reached an agreement regarding return of artifacts removed from Macchu Picchu in the early 20th century by Hiram Bingham. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/274 | |
| Source2: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/274/video | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |