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Machu Picchu

- Is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes mountains.

- Machu Picchu is in Peru.

- Over 1 million people visit Machu Picchu a year.

- Hiram Binghamlll encountered Machu Picchu in 1911

- Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438-1472)

- Machu Picchu was built around 1450 and was abandoned just over a 100 years later, in 1572.