Machu Picchu,The Lost City
By Cris Rodrigues
Machu Picchu, in the language quechua; “Machu Pikchu” (“Old Pico”), also is called “the lost city of the Incas”. It is a pre-Columbian, situated city in the top of a mountain, the 2,057 meters of altitude, in the valley of the river Urubamba, in the Perú, hidden in the forest, encircled of other sacred mountains and with an almost perfect celestial alignment. It was ordered to construct for the sovereign Inca Pachacuti, in the XV century.
This mysterious city was discovered by the professor American north Hiram Bingham (head of an expedition of the University of Yale) the 24 of July of 1911.Bingham was anthropologist, historian and explorer become a fan in archaeology. In the height, however, it tried to discover the city of the Incas descendants; Vilcabamba, but when entering in canyon of Urubamba, a peasant informed it of the existence of ruìns, in the top of a mountain of Macchu skeptical Picchu.Embora, expert of many myths that exist on the lost cities, was lead by a boy (son of resident shepherds close to the place) to cerro, finding the city invaded for the tropical vegetation and vipers. While it inspected the ruins, writing down notes, each time if haunted more.He was returned city, in 1912,1914 and 1915 and diverse explorers they had taken maps, they explored the area and the outskirts, at great length. In its hollowings, not very orthodox, it found some objectos in bronze, it has covered, silver and rock, not finding nothing in gold, but convincing it, of that the ruins retraced to the esplendor of the period Inca.
The city is divided by two great areas; the agriculturist, formed for terraces and enclosures where they stored foods; e the urban one, where if it detaches the sacred zone, with temples, squares and palaces. It has diverse theories on its function, most accepted it is that it was constructed to supervise the economy of the conquered regions and with the private intention to protect the sovereign Inca and its military next in attack case.
The ways that took to city were hidden at common population, therefore the secret was the main military defense. The known enclosures more are: The “Acllawasi” (“house of the chosen ones”), a temple of sun virgins. The “Intiwatana”, the solar clock, that marked the stations of the year. In 1997 a fire destroyed part of the vegetation of the city.
Macchu Picchu is of the ones of the enigmatic places prettiest and of the World, without a doubt deserving to be one of the 7 wonders of the World.
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