2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru stand the ruins of Machu Picchu, a pre-Columbian Inca site rediscovered in 1911 by archaeologist Hiram Bingham.
A site of Inca ruins, famous for its sunken amphitheater, made up of four circular terraces.
A town in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, with a large part of it remaining as it was in the Inca times.
