Machu Picchu Painting

Machu Picchu (Quechua of southern machu pikchu, "Old Mountain") is the contemporary name given to an llaqta (former Inca Andean village) mainly built of stone in the middle of the fifteenth century in the rocky promontory that links the mountains and Machu Picchu Huayna Picchu in the eastern slopes of the central Andes in southern Peru. His original name was Picchu or Piche.

According to documents from the mid-sixteenth century, Machu Picchu was one of the residences rest of Pachac?tec (first Incan emperor, 1438-1470). However, some of its finest buildings and the obvious nature of the ceremonial main access route to the llaqta demonstrate that it was used as a religious shrine. The two uses, the palace and shrine, would not have been inconsistent. Some experts seem to have ruled out, however, an alleged military nature, so the popular epithets of "strength" or "citadel" could have been overcome.