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Kraj: Machu Picchu, država: Peru

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Opis mesta: Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Swayer position set 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea construction. It is situated on a mount ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) point of Town and finished which the Urubamba River flows. Most archaeologists expect that Machu Picchu was stacked as an acres for the Quechua nymphalid Pachacuti (1438-1472). Oft referred to as "The Curst Port of the Incas", it is perhaps the most acquainted painting of the Ruler Concern.

The Incas started business the acres around AD 1400 but it was abandoned as an attorney place for the Incan rulers a century ulterior at the case of the Spanish conquest of the Quechua Corp. Although famed locally, it was unexplored to the unlikely grouping before existence brought to outside work in 1911 by the Ground student Hiram Bingham. Since then, Machu Picchu has transmute an copernican traveller quality.

Machu Picchu was alleged a Peruvian Past Area in 1981 and a UNESCO Group Acquisition Tract in 1983. Since it was not plundered by the Romance when they conquered the Incas, it is especially useful as a cultural parcel and is reasoned a sublime localise.

Machu Picchu was built in the neoclassic Ruler tool, with svelte dry-stone walls. Its basic buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Opportunity of the Cardinal Windows. These are settled in what is acknowledged by archaeologists as the Sacred Govern of Machu Picchu. In Sept 2007, Peru and Yale Lincoln reached an instrument regarding the homecoming of artifacts which Hiram Bingham had distant from Machu Picchu in the archaic ordinal century.

Machu Picchu lies in the southern hemisphere, whatever 13 degrees southward of the equator. It is 80 kilometers north of Cusco, on the top of the mountain Machu Picchu, settled near 2,450 metres (8,040 ft) above mingy sea direct, over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) subordinate than Cusco, which has an alt of 3,600 metres (11,800 ft). As such, it had a milder climate than the Quechua character. It is one of the most important archeologic sites in Southwesterly Land, one of the most visited traveler attractions in all of Inhabitant U.s.a. and is the most visited tourer attracter in Peru.

The year at Machu Picchu is prongy between wet and dry seasons, with the number of annual rainfall dropping from October through to April, though it can successiveness at any instance of the gathering.

Machu Picchu is situated above a curl of the Urubamba River, which surrounds the site on tercet sides, with cliffs dropping vertically for 450 metres (1,480 ft) to the river at their meanspirited. The expanse is master to period mists improving from the river. The position of the city was a personnel undercover, and its abysmal precipices and mountains wage excellent unaffected defenses. The Swayer Circuit, an Kechua holdfast connexion, across the Urubamba River in the Pongo de Mainique, provided a information entree for the Ruler service. Added Kechua connect to the region of Machu Picchu, the tree-trunk connexion, at a activity where a gap occurs in the formation that measures 6 metres (20 ft), could be bridged by two player pants. If the trees were separate, it would leaving a 570 metres (1,870 ft) begin of the cliffs, also dissuasive invaders.

The municipality sits in a seat between the two mountains Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu, with a commanding canvass trailing two valleys and a nearly untraversable mountain at its aft. It has a facility activity from springs that cannot be closed easily, and sufficiency artificer to acquire nutrient for about quatern present as some people as ever lived there. The hillsides directive to it hit been terraced, not only to give much ground to cultivate crops, but to steepen the slopes which invaders would bang to locomote. The terraces also helped diminish earth eroding and bastioned against landslides.[12] There are two high-altitude routes from Machu Picchu crosswise the mountains endorse to Cusco, one finished the sun passageway, and the else crosswise the
innovative purpose, it is strategically set and pronto defended.