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Inside Machu Picchu's Mountain Engineering
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Machu Picchu on its ridge with Huayna Picchu behind.
Martin St-Amant (S23678) · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Inside Machu Picchu's Mountain Engineering
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We have climbed into the clouds of Peru. Machu Picchu sits on a ridge about 2,430 meters up, between steep peaks above the Urubamba River. It was built around 1450 as an estate for the Inca ruler Pachacuti. We will see why the ridge was chosen and how Inca engineers made it last.