Machu Picchu
Peru · South America
A very old stone city high up in the mountains of Peru.
Machu Picchu is a stone city built by the Inca people in the 1400s. It sits on a ridge high in the Andes mountains of Peru.
Machu Picchu's 200 stone buildings cling to a ridge more than 2,400 metres up, where the Andes meet the Amazon cloud forest. The outside world only learned about it in 1911.
Three things to know
Machu Picchu was built by the Inca people in the fifteenth century.
It sits on a steep ridge more than 2,400 metres above sea level.
About 200 stone structures stand among its terraces; the outside world learned about it in 1911.
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