Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is the site of an ancient Inca city, high in the Andes of Peru. 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.
- Tourist attraction
- …lies at an elevation of 2,155 metres (7,070 feet)
- …is partly wheelchair accessible
- 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”“Wayna Picchu”
- Established: ~1450
Places of Interest
Highlights include Huayna Picchu and Inka Bridge.
Huayna Picchu
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aguas Calientes.
Machu Picchu
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Latitude
-13.1631° or 13° 9′ 47″ south
Longitude
-72.5456° or 72° 32′ 44″ west
Open location code
57R9RFP3+QQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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tourism=attraction
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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”
- Aragonese: “Machu Picchu”
- 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”
- Central Kurdish: “ماچوو پیکچوو”
- 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”
- Kölsch: “Matschu Pitschu”
- Korean: “마추 픽추”
- Kurdish: “Machu Picchu”
- Latin: “Machu Pikchu”
- Latvian: “Maču Pikču”
- Literary Chinese: “馬丘比丘”
- Lithuanian: “Maču Pikču”
- Livvi: “Maču Pikču”
- Low German: “Machu Picchu”
- Luxembourgish: “Machu Picchu”
- Macedonian: “Мачу Пикчу”
- Magahi: “माचू पिचू”
- 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”
- Marathi: “माचू पिक्चू”
- 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”
- Sindhi: “ماچو پچو”
- 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།”
- 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”
- “ma tomo Masu Pisu”
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