{"id":4245,"date":"2025-09-19T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:40:35","slug":"what-is-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-machu-picchu\/","title":{"rendered":"Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Machu Picchu<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, many tourists were stranded near Peru\u2019s ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after a passenger train service was suspended due to a protest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Machu Picchu<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a 15th-century <\/span><b>Inca site of Peru.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located 80 km northwest of Cuzco, Peru, in the <\/span><b>Cordillera de Vilcabamba of the Andes Mountains.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is saddled between two peaks-<\/span><b>Machu Picchu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (\u201cOld Peak\u201d) and <\/span><b>Huayna Picchu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (\u201cNew Peak\u201d)\u2014at an elevation of 7,710 feet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believed to have been <\/span><b>built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the ninth ruler of the Inca, in the mid-1400s.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Monuments:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This citadel is made up of <\/span><b>temples, palaces, terraces, monuments, complexes and walls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; in addition to water channels, built with large <\/span><b>blocks of stone, without any amalgam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, proof of the great wisdom of the Inca civilization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911 by the <\/span><b>American explorer\u00a0 Hiram Bingham.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was designated a <\/span><b>UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about Inca Civilization<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Time Line:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It flourished in ancient <\/span><b>Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the largest empire ever <\/span><b>seen in the Americas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the largest in the world at that time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Society:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Inca society was highly stratified. The emperor ruled with the aid of an aristocratic bureaucracy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Architecture and Technology:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Inca technology and architecture were highly developed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Religious belief:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Inca religion combined features of <\/span><b>animism, fetishism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the worship of nature gods.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/peru-protest-strands-hundreds-of-tourists-near-machu-picchu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0DD News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca site located 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Cuzco, Peru. 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