Machu Picchu, Peru

Machu Picchu (often also called "the lost City of the Incas") is a location of a pre-Columbian Inca ruins located in the mountains at an altitude of about 2,350 m above sea level. Machu Picchu is above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km northwest of Cusco.

This city is a symbol of the Inca Empire's most famous. Built in about 1450, but abandoned a hundred years later, when the Spaniards conquered the Inca Empire. This site was forgotten by the world, but not by the local community. This site re-discovered by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham III university who find it again on this day in 1911. Since then, Machu Picchu became a tourist attraction that attracts local and foreign tourists.

Machu Picchu was built by the ancient Incan style with walls of polished stone. The main building is Intihuatana, Temple of the Sun, and Three Window Room. These places are known as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu.

The site has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, Machu Picchu is also one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, is also receiving attention due to damage caused by tourism (the number of visitors reached 400,000 in 2003). In September of 2007, Peru did legal efforts to reach an agreement with the results of Yale University to retrieve artifacts have been taken by Bingham from the site in the early 20th century.