Descriptive text: The Empire of the Incas

On the Left Bank Wilcamayu are ruins of the ancient city of Machupicchu (130 kilometers from Cusco), whose name derives from the Quechua machu pikchu that means "Old Mountain".

Machupicchu is the most spectacular well-known and amazing archeological park of the continent, considered by UNESCO like “Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity”. Its geographic space is nailed in a deep and wonderful bend of the Canyon of Urubamba River, a place with unforgettable sunrise and magic nights.

The area was built in Machupicchu is 530 meters long by 200 wide and includes at least 172 precincts. The complex is clearly divided into two main areas: the agricultural zone, made up of sets of farming terraces, which is south and the urban area, which is, of course, the one where they lived and where its occupants were the main civil and religious activities. Both areas are separated by a wall, a moat and a staircase.

In the agriculture zone, the platforms (farming terraces) of Machu Picchu look like big steps built on the hillside. Structures are formed by a stone wall and a filling of different layers of material (large stones, smaller stones, gravel, clay and soil cultivation) to facilitate drainage, preventing water was empoce in them and its structure collapse. This type of construction allowed being cultivated on them until the first decade of the twentieth century. Other platforms are less width at the bottom of Machu Picchu, all around the city; however his role was not to farm but to serve as retaining walls.

For the other hand, in the urban area all the buildings at Machupicchu still the classic Inca architectural style: buildings with walls of polished blocks on a regular basis, perfect joints between the blocks of stone and a slight slope or inclination, making the base protrudes slightly from the sale.

Also, across the area of Machu Picchu are abundant ponds and water sources called "pacchas", carved in stone and interconnected by canals and drains drilled into the rock.

For this reasons, the old city of Machupicchu can be known, too, as the city of platforms, stairs and water sources.

In another aspect, the weather of the Historical Sanctuary of Machupicchu is primaveral all the year, because it is a subtropical zone with temperatures that oscillate between the 8 and 22 degrees Celsius. The months of greater pluvial precipitation are of December to April with permanent clouds.

Besides, the fauna is exotic, being infinity of plants, mosses and ferns. It’s abundant and is varied. For example: bear of eyeglasses, deer, puma, fox, otter of river, cat I mount, torrent picaflor, duck, parrot, frog, in numerous aim Andean and Amazonian fauna.

All in all, located at 2400 meters above sea level in the department of Cusco, Machupicchu is one of the most important monuments on the planet. Citadel mysterious because, so far, archaeologists have been unable to decipher the history and function of this city of nearly a kilometer from rock extension, built by the Incas in a magic geographic area where the Andean and Amazonian confluence.