Wonders of World: Machu Picchu in Peru

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian place which is located in Inca site 7,970 feet above the sea and one of the greatest wonders of the world. Machu Picchu is located in the region Cusco of Peru in South America. It is two thousand feet above the rumbling Urubamba River.

It is placed on mountain edge and covered with the thick layer of clouds which gives it a heavenly look. The engineers have estimated that about 1200 people could live in this area. This place is separated in three areas: agricultural, religious and urban.

The monument covers 32,500 ha in some of the scenically most attractive mountainous territory of the Peruvian Andes. The valleys surrounding Macho Picchu have been cultivated continuously for well over 1,000 years which provide world’s greatest example of a productive relationship between man and the land.

Machu Picchu is considered to be the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire as the height of its giant walls, terraces and ramps seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock escarpments.

Inca civilization has a unique testimony in the shape of Machu Picchu along with Cuzco and the other historical sites of the Urubamba such as Ollantautaybo, Runcuracay, Sayacmarca, Phuyupamarca, Huiñay Huayna and Intipucu.

Many people, every year come to this place for hiking as it is the best place ever for climbing their way through the Inca trails. Machu Picchu has different buildings like: hillside temples, terraces, field and baths take the tourist in another world. These places have valleys which have been cultivated over 1, 000 years and have heavenly scenes.

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