At the top of dead womans pass

No dead women at ´Dead Woman´s Pass

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December 14th 2007
Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located at 2,430 meters above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km northwest of Cusco. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire. It was built around the year 1450 and abandoned a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more