Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu, is one of those talismanic places that everyone dreams to visit, is a city located in the andes mountains in Peru. It was built between 1460 and 1470 AD by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, an Incan ruler.The city has an altitude of 8,000 feet, and is high above the Urubamba River canyon cloud forest, so it better because didn't have any, military or commercial use. Machu Picchu has approximately 200 buildings, most are residences, although there are temples, storage structures and other public buildings. About 1,200 people lived in and around Machu Picchu, most of them women, children, and priests.
The buildings are have been planned and built under the supervision of professional Inca architects. Most of the structures are built of granite blocks cut with bronze , and smoothed with sand.
The Incas planted crops such as potatoes and maize at Machu Picchu. To get the highest yield possible, they used advanced and methods to reduce erosion and increase the area available for cultivation. One of the most important things found at Machu Picchu is the intihuatana, is a column of stone rising from a block of stone the size of a grand piano, Intihuatana literally means "for tying the sun". When the winter solstice is produced, a priest would hold a ceremony to tie the sun to the stone to prevent the sun from disappearing altogether. The other intihuatanas were destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors,but because the Spanish never found Machu Picchu, it is intact. Mummies have been found there; most of the mummies were women.
I think that this place is the most impresionant that one person could visit for theirs mountains and spots.
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/sites/machu_picchu.html
and you didn't even mention your internet source!