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Today, visitors can reach Machu Picchu via three main routes. The most popular option is the train journey from Cusco or Ollantaytambo . Operated by PeruRail and Inca Rail , this scenic route takes visitors to the town of Aguas Calientes , from where they can take a bus ride of 8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi) or walk to the Machu Picchu entrance.
Most archaeologists now believe that the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was built as an estate for Pachacuti. [ 2 ] In Quechua, the cosmogonical concept of pachakutiy means "the turn of the world" [ 3 ] and yupanki could mean "honorable lord". [ 4 ]
Cradle of gold: the story of Hiram Bingham, a real-life Indiana Jones and the search for Machu Picchu. MacMillan. ISBN 978-0-230-11204-9; Hall, Amy Cox (22 November 2017). Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4773-1368-8
The Incas are renowned for their precision in stone masonry. The architecture was a means of bringing order to untamed areas and the people of the Andes region. Machu Picchu, located in the Sacred Valley, is an example of the Incas adapting building strategies that acknowledge the topography of the area.
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The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu, [13] "the suyu of four [parts]". In Quechua, tawa is four and -ntin is a suffix naming a group, so that a tawantin is a quartet, a group of four things taken together, in this case the four suyu ("regions" or "provinces") whose corners met at the capital.
The city is the seventh most populous in Peru; in 2017, it had a population of 428,450. Its elevation is around 3,400 m (11,200 ft). The city was the capital of the Inca Empire until the 16th-century Spanish conquest. In 1983, Cusco was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO with the title "City of Cusco".
Machu Picchu, a mountainous settlement that was inhabited during the time of Tahuantinsuyu. In later periods, much of the Andean region was conquered by the indigenous Incas , who in 1438 founded the largest empire that the Americas had ever seen, named Tahuantinsuyu , but usually called the Inca Empire. [ 6 ]