Machu Picchu (The Lost City of the Incas), Peru


Machu Picchu, Peru, photo by Julia Manzerova

Machu Picchu, Peru, photo by Julia Manzerova

Machu Picchu (The Lost City of the Incas) is an Inca fortress city situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in the Andes in the western South American country of Peru. The Inca Empire  was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Built around 1460, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site and also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.


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