Word: urubamba
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unknown territory in the Andean region, and found several ruined Inca cities of great archaeological interest. The largest of these, "Machu Picchu," the most perfectly preserved Inca city known, was entirely excavated. The buildings were perched, upon the top of an almost inaccessible ridge, two thousand feet above the Urubamba River. In the excellence of its masonry, the daring of its architecture, and the extraordinary manner in which every available inch of tillable soil was terraced up and utilized, this group of ruins is quite unique...