🧿 Machu Picchu

Peru · Americas · 13.16°S, 72.55°W

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). It is situated in the Machupicchu District of Urubamba Province about 80 kilometers northwest of Cusco, above the Sacred Valley and along the Urubamba River, which forms a deep canyon with a subtropical mountain climate.

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Quick facts

Country	Peru
Continent / region	Americas
Coordinates (approx.)	13.16°S, 72.55°W · view on map

Machu Picchu is located in Peru, in Americas.

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