Cuzco Department
Urubamba Province
Machupicchu District

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu is the site of an ancient Inca city, high in the Andes of . At 2,430 metres above sea level, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is often referred to as “The Lost City of the Incas”, is one of the most familiar symbols of the Incan Empire, and is one of the most famous and spectacular sets of ruins in the world.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: 15th-century Inca citadel in the Peruvian Andes and UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Also known as: “Ciudadela de Machu Picchu”, “Huayna Picchu”, “Machupiccho”, “Ruinas Machupicchu”, and “Wayna Picchu”
  • Wheelchair access: limited
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Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Huayna Picchu and Inka Bridge.

Peak
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, Quechua: Wayna Pikchu, is a mountain in around which the bends. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, .

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The Inca Bridge or refers to one of two places related to access to Machu Picchu, in . One of the two was built by the Incas as a secret entrance of the holy Picchu for the Inca army.

Peak
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Putucusi is a round-shaped mountain located on the opposite side of the to Machu Picchu in the Cusco Region of . Reaching approximately 2,560 metres above sea level at its peak, the mountain offers epic views of Machu Picchu and the surrounding Urubamba River valley.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aguas Calientes.

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is a small town at the bottom of the valley next to Machu Picchu, and the principal access point to the site. All visitors to Machu Picchu pass through and most spend at least one night here.

Machu Picchu

Latitude
-13.1631° or 13° 9′ 47″ south
Longitude
-72.5456° or 72° 32′ 44″ west
Elevation
2,155 metres (7,070 feet)
Inception
~1450
Open location code
57R9RFP3+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 157376572
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
3935634
Wiki­data ID
Q676203
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Machu Picchu” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Мачу Пикчу”
  • Afrikaans: “Machu Picchu”
  • Albanian: “Maçu Piçu”
  • Amharic: “ማቹ ፒቹ”
  • Arabic: “ماتشو بيتشو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الشمس المقدسة”
  • Armenian: “Մաչու Պիկչու”
  • Asturian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Aymara: “Machu Pijchu”
  • Aymara: “Machu Pikchu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maçu Piçu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maçu-Pikçu”
  • Balinese: “Macchu Picchu”
  • Basque: “Machu Picchu”
  • Belarusian: “Мачу-Пікчу”
  • Bengali: “মাচু পিচু”
  • Bosnian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Breton: “Machu Pikchu”
  • Bulgarian: “Мачу Пикчу”
  • Burmese: “မာချူးပီချူး”
  • Catalan: “Machu Picchu”
  • Cebuano: “Machupicchu”
  • Central Bikol: “Machu Picchu”
  • Chinese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Chinese: “馬丘比丘”
  • Chinese: “马丘比丘”
  • Chinese: “麻丘比丘”
  • Croatian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Czech: “Machu Picchu”
  • Danish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Dhivehi: “މާޗޫ ޕީކްޗޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Machu Picchu”
  • Dutch: “Machu Picchu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتشو بيتشو”
  • Esperanto: “Maĉupikĉuo”
  • Estonian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Faroese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Finnish: “Machu Picchu”
  • French: “Machu Picchu”
  • Galician: “Machu Picchu”
  • Georgian: “მაჩუ-პიქჩუ”
  • German: “Machu Picchu”
  • Greek: “Μάτσου Πίτσου”
  • Guarani: “Machu Picchu”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Machu Picchu”
  • Gujarati: “માચુ પીચુ”
  • Hausa: “Machu Picchu”
  • Hebrew: “מאצ’ו פיצ’ו”
  • Hebrew: “מאצו פיצו”
  • Hindi: “माचू पिच्चू”
  • Hungarian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Icelandic: “Machu Picchu”
  • Indonesian: “Cagar Alam Machu Picchu”
  • Indonesian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Interlingua: “Machu Picchu”
  • Irish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Italian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Japanese: “マチュ・ピチュ”
  • Japanese: “マチュピチュ”
  • Javanese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Kabiyè: “Machu Picchu”
  • Kannada: “Machu picchu”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಛ್ಛು ಪಿಛ್ಛು”
  • Kazakh: “Мачу-Пикчу”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាជូ ពីជូ”
  • Korean: “마추 픽추”
  • Kurdish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Latin: “Machu Pikchu”
  • Latvian: “Maču Pikču”
  • Lithuanian: “Maču Pikču”
  • Livvi: “Maču Pikču”
  • Low German: “Machu Picchu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Macedonian: “Мачу Пикчу”
  • Maithili: “माचू पिचू”
  • Malagasy: “Machu Picchu”
  • Malay: “Machu Picchu”
  • Malayalam: “മാച്ചു പിക് ച്ചു”
  • Malayalam: “മാച്ചു പിക്ച്ചു”
  • Malayalam: “മാച്ചു പിക്‌ച്ചു”
  • Maltese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯆꯨ ꯄꯤꯆꯨ”
  • Mapudungun: “mari mari”
  • Marathi: “माक्सू पिक्त्सू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Mingrelian: “მაჩუ-პიქჩუ”
  • Mongolian: “Мачу Пикчу”
  • Nepali: “माचु पिचु”
  • Nepali: “माचू पिचू”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Machu Picchu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Machu Picchu”
  • Norwegian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Machu Picchu”
  • Ossetian: “Мачу-Пикчу”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਚੂ ਪਿਕਚੂ”
  • Persian: “ماچو پیچو”
  • Polish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Portuguese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Pushto: “ماچو پيچو”
  • Quechua: “Machu Pikchu”
  • Romanian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Romansh: “Machu Picchu”
  • Russian: “Мачу-Пикчу”
  • Sakizaya: “Ma-ciw-pi-ciw”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Machu Picchu”
  • Scots: “Macchu Piccu”
  • Serbian: “Maču Pikču”
  • Serbian: “Мачу Пикчу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Sicilian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Slovak: “Machu Picchu”
  • Slovenian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Spanish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Spanish: “Machu Pichu”
  • Spanish: “Ruinas de Machu Picchu”
  • Spanish: “Ruinas Machupichu”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵜⵛⵓ ⴱⵉⵜⵛⵓ”
  • Sundanese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Swahili: “Machu Picchu”
  • Swedish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Swiss German: “Machu Picchu”
  • Tagalog: “Machu Picchu”
  • Tamil: “மச்சு பிச்சு”
  • Tatar: “Machu Picchu”
  • Tatar: “Maçu Pikçu”
  • Telugu: “machu pichu”
  • Telugu: “మాచు పిచ్చు”
  • Thai: “มาชูปิกชู”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ཆོ་པེ་ཆོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Turkish: “Machu Picchu”
  • Ukrainian: “Мачу-Пікчу”
  • Urdu: “ماچو پیچو”
  • Uzbek: “Machu picchu”
  • Uzbek: “Machu-Pikchu”
  • Venetian: “Machu Picchu”
  • Veps: “Maču Pikču”
  • Vietnamese: “Machu Picchu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Machu Picchu”
  • Welsh: “Machu Picchu”
  • Western Armenian: “Մաչու Փիքչու”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماچو پچو”
  • Wu Chinese: “马丘比丘”
  • Yakut: “Мачу-Пикчу”
  • Yoruba: “Mátsù Píktsù”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬丘比丘”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬珠比珠”
  • Zeeuws: “Machu Picchu”
  • “Machu Picchu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Machu Picchu”. Photo: Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0.