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Pica pica plaza5/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Historical research published in 2022 claims that the site was probably called Huayna Picchu by the Inca, as it exists on the smaller peak of the same name. According to the new AMS radiocarbon dating, it was occupied from c. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later, at the time of the Spanish conquest. Most recent archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was constructed as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). The names of the buildings, their supposed uses, and their inhabitants are the product of modern archaeologists on the basis of physical evidence, including tombs at the site. The Inca civilization had no written language and no European visited the site until the 19th century, so far as is known, so there are no written records of the site while it was in use. In English, the name is pronounced / ˌ m ɑː tʃ uː ˈ p iː tʃ uː/ or / ˌ m æ tʃ uː ˈ p iː k tʃ uː/, in Spanish as or, and in Quechua ( Machu Pikchu) as. (For most speakers of English or Spanish, the first 'c' in Picchu is silent. The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical mountain climate. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometers (50 mi) northwest of Cusco. ![]() Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. ![]()
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