15 Facts About Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historic Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.

In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide internet poll.

Machu Picchu organized the 1911 Yale Peruvian Expedition in part to search for the Inca capital, which was thought to be the city of Vitcos.

Machu Picchu took preliminary notes, measurements, and photographs, noting the fine quality of Inca stonework of several principal buildings.

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Machu Picchu then crossed a pass and into the Pampaconas Valley where he found more ruins heavily buried in the jungle undergrowth at Espiritu Pampa, which he named "Trombone Pampa".

Along the Urubamba river, below the ruins, surrounding the train line "street", is the town of Machu Picchu, known as Aguas Calientes, with a post office, a train station, many inexpensive and some expensive hotels, and other services for the many tourists.

Machu Picchu is officially twinned with Haworth, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom.

Machu Picchu is situated above a bow of the Urubamba River, which surrounds the site on three sides, where cliffs drop vertically for 450 meters to the river at their base.

Section of the mountain where Machu Picchu was built provided various challenges that the Incas solved with local materials.

The people of Machu Picchu were connected to long-distance trade, as shown by non-local artifacts found at the site.

Closest access point to Machu Picchu is the village of Machupicchu, known as Aguas Calientes.

Machu Picchu is both a cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage Site.

From 1994 to 2019, the Chief of the National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu was Fernando Astete, a Peruvian anthropologist and archeologist, who worked for more than thirty years on the preservation, conservation and research of the site.

Machu Picchu was featured prominently in the film The Motorcycle Diaries, a biopic based on the 1952 youthful travel memoir of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.