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Wikipedia - "It was built around the year 1460, but abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire."
Wikipedia, Destination: Machu Picchu
Wikipedia, Destination: Machu Picchu