unesco sites

1. MACHU PICCHU

2. Describe the site?
• The great city of Machu picchu is a real
challenge of man to nature, was built on the
back of a spur that emerges midway up a
mountain, where according to Peruvian
scholar Alfonsina Barrionuevo, suspends its
palaces and temples on the granite canyon Of
the Urubamba, hanging over the river

3. Where is it?
• It is located in Cuzco region, Urubamba
Province, Machupicchu District in Perú.

4. When it was listed?
• In 1983, UNESCO designated Machu Picchu a
world heritage site.

5. Why it was listed?
• Because, is a part of a set cultural and
ecological known as sanctuary historical of
Machu Picchu, it was declared as one of the
new 7 amazes of moderns world, in a
ceremony realized in Lisboa that told with the
nacticination of one hundred million of voters
in the world.

6. Was happened the site
for ever on the UNESCO
danger list?• See the Machu Picchu from the cime of
Huayana Picchu is special, but arrive hear is a
dangerous travel. Between the dangerous
more common is the careless paths, the
ladders almost verticals and the bad height.
The climb is so treacherous that even the
guides proceed with caution since every year
the Machu Picchu is charged some human
sacrifice.

9. Does the site have
more tourist?
• Machu Picchu is one of world’s most iconic
archeological sites and Peru’s most popular
tourist attraction.
• The number of visitors to Machu Picchu each
year has grown from the low 100,000 in the
1980 , to a peak of nearly 1.2 million tourists
in 2013 a 70% increase!

10. It´s relevant do people
live at the site ?
• Inca society had a hard social structure in its
ethnic relations and function, from which
power was born. The structure of classes does
not respond so much to the economic
position of the people but also to the
functions that had to fulfill within the word
community. The Incas have power over many
curacas and these over the chain of other
chiefs of lower territorial levels.

12. Is the site famous for
any particular reason?• It is famous for 5 reasons in particular:
• 1-To know one of the 7 wonders of the
modern world.
• 2-Feel the energy and explore the mystery
that surrounds the Sanctuary.
• 3-Getting to Machu Picchu by the Inca Trail.
• 4-Visit the Sacred Valley of Cusco or other
destinations.
• 5-Climb to Cerro Huayna Picchu and have an
incredible panoramic view.

17. Other than being a
UNESCO world heritage
site?
• Apart from being from UNESCO is a sample of
how our ancestors lived.