Beautiful Footage: Hiking to Machu Picchu

ORAL PRESENTATION:
MACHU PICCHU

This presentation was realized by:

- Rúben Campos nº20 7ºA
LOCALIZATION
• Machu Picchu is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, in Peru.
MACHU PICCHO
• It was built in the fifteenth century, under Pachacuti orders. The location is probably the
most typical symbol of the Inca Empire, either due to its unique location and geological
features, either because of their late discovery in 1911. Only about 30% of the city's
original construction, the rest was rebuilt. The reconstructed areas are easily recognized by
the fit between the stones. The original building consists of larger stones, and fittings with
little space between the rocks.
THEORY ABOUT THE FUNCTION OF MACHU
PICCHU
• There are several theories about Machu Picchu function, and the most
accepted says that was a settlement built with the purpose of supervising the
economy of the conquered regions and the secret purpose of escaping the
sovereign Inca and his closest entourage, in case of attack .
DIVISIONS
• The complex is clearly divided into two major areas: agricultural area, formed by sets of
cultivation terraces, which lies to the south; and the urban area, which is one where their
occupants lived and where he developed the main civil and religious activities. The two
areas are separated by a wall, a moat and a staircase, elements that run parallel to the east
side of the mountain.