Machu Picchu: The Temple of the Three WindowsNames: Ankeya Smith, Dymond Mumford and Erin Stewart

What is Machu Picchu? • “Lost City of the Inca’s”

• Machu Picchu stands 2,430 meters above sea level in the middle of a tropical mountain forest.

• Machu Picchu is a historic sanctuary built for the Inca civilization in the 15th century.

• Machu Picchu has thousands of steps and 16 fountains.

• Believed the people died over smallpox.• It is believed to be abandoned in the

16th century when the Spaniards took over the empire.

The use of Machu Picchu

Road and trail system

The building consisted of baths, houses, temples and sanctuaries.

It was the center for the Inca Civilization (trade, worship and meeting place.

Farming zone, residential town, royal district and sacred palace.

Our Site: What We Built • An Inca temple built out of stone.• Normally fit well together• Built to withstand earthquakes• High priests inhabited Machu Picchu

Geography Facts Rock from the mountains to build. 79 in of annual rain fall.

Used terraces to farm land and to prevent from sliding.

Used river rock to carve buildings. The geography is the reason for its existence today.

Terraces were layers (big and small rocks, gravel, sand and topsoil.)

Machu Picchu: Current • Discovered by the

outside world in 1911• Peru’s most visited

attraction.• Machu Picchu is

protected by the Peruvian government.

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