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Recently, many tourists were stranded near Peru’s ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after a passenger train service was suspended due to a protest.

About Machu Picchu

• It is a 15th-century Inca site of Peru.
• Location: It is located 80 km northwest of Cuzco, Peru, in the Cordillera de Vilcabamba of the Andes Mountains.
• It is saddled between two peaks-Machu Picchu (“Old Peak”) and Huayna Picchu (“New Peak”)—at an elevation of 7,710 feet.
• It is believed to have been built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth ruler of the Inca, in the mid-1400s. 
• Monuments: This citadel is made up of temples, palaces, terraces, monuments, complexes and walls; in addition to water channels, built with large blocks of stone, without any amalgam, proof of the great wisdom of the Inca civilization.
• Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911 by the American explorer  Hiram Bingham.
• It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.

Key Facts about Inca Civilization

• Time Line: It flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE.
• It is the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time.
• Society: Inca society was highly stratified. The emperor ruled with the aid of an aristocratic bureaucracy.
• Architecture and Technology: Inca technology and architecture were highly developed.
• Religious belief: The Inca religion combined features of animism, fetishism, and the worship of nature gods.

Source:  DD News

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