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"The town sits in a saddle between two mountains."
ABOUT MACHU PICCHU
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2’430 metres above sea level. The town sits in a saddle between two mountains.
The Urubamba River surrounds the site on three sides around 450 metres lower. The buildings are built in traditional Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape.
The Incas were masters of this technique in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. Luckily, I visited that place which is UNESCO-World Heritage Site in 1987 when there were not yet so many tourists as today.
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