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2. Tourism in Peru - Wikipedia

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   The main destinations of interest are Cusco, Urubamba, and Machu Picchu. Other areas visited include the Puno Region and Lake Titicaca, as well as Iquitos and the Colca Canyon in Arequipa, as the government, local authorities and local and international travel firms have made large investments in hotels, infrastructure and other tourism ...

3. Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu - Wikipedia

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   The Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu [2] is a protected area in Peru covering over 35,000 hectares. It includes the natural environment surrounding the Machu Picchu archaeological site, located in the rugged cloud forest of the Yungas on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes and along both banks of the Urubamba River, which flows northwest in this section.

4. Machu Picchu - Wikipedia

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   Machu Picchu [a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.

5. Sacred Valley - Wikipedia

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   The Sacred Valley is a major tourist destination. In 2019, 1.6 million people, the majority non-Peruvians, visited Machu Picchu, [2] its most famous archaeological site. Many of the same tourists also visited other archaeological sites and modern towns in the Sacred Valley.

6. Machu Picchu reopens today – is it safe to visit? - AOL

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   Machu Picchu was closed on Saturday 21 January due to anti-government protests spreading across Peru. Protests began after former president Pedro Castillo was removed from office, impeached and ...

7. List of World Heritage Sites in Peru - Wikipedia

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   Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu: Cuzco 1983 274; i, iii, vii, ix (mixed) At 2,340 metres (7,680 ft) above sea level, the site of Machu Picchu was constructed as an expansive mountain estate around the middle of the 15th century, and abandoned approximately 100 years later.

8. National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru

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   The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...

9. Secret of the Incas - Wikipedia

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   American adventurer Harry Steele makes a living as a tour guide in Cusco, Peru but plans to earn his fortune by finding the legendary gold and jeweled "sunburst", a lost Inca treasure, at the ancient capital of Machu Picchu. He possesses a fragment of a carved stone block which gives the location of the sunburst when placed on a stone map of ...