• Foto Number: 10H-P03-03

Upon a hilltop in the shadow of mount Huayna Picchu (in the background), the sacred city of Machu Picchu (“old mountain” in Quechua) was erected in the 15th century under ¬the Inca emperor Pachacutec. In 1983 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and in 2007 it was designated as one of the seven new wonders of the world by NewOpenWorld Foundation.

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  South America Peru Cuzco Machu Picchu Huayna Picchu Piruw Incas precolombian Archaeology ruin