Machu Picchu: Then and Now

Mountain estate built for the Inca emperor Pachacuti around 1450 and abandoned a century later. The Spanish never found it; it became world-famous after 1911.

Key facts

Country today	Peru
Status	Ruins
Date	1450
Nearest city on the map	Cusco (about 74 km)
Location	13.163° S, 72.545° W

Map showing Machu Picchu in 1400 — Border map for 1400. See the world in 1400.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

Period	State
500 BC–2 BC	Manioc farmers
1 BC–599	Unclaimed / no data
600–1299	Huari Empire
1300–1491	Andean states and chiefdoms
1492–1599	Inca Empire
1600–1879	Viceroyalty of Peru
1880–today	Peru

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