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CUZCO: TIIE HISTORIC.A.L MONUMENTAL
CITY OF PER
The age of Machu Piechu is given a:s dating from one thou.sand"
year.s before the In,ooic era. This conforms with the epoch of the
destruction ,of the Fiuit Quechua Empire. It must have been
compose,d of a ;popu1aitiion of refugees, or certainly by a race
pur&ued or persecuted -by tmemies. Many have also e}.-pres.sed the
opinion that Thúpacc .A.maru was made a pnsoner there by Titu
Cusís, in the care of the iMacaunas, thereby supposing thait Vil–
cabamba would correaporud to Machw Picchu. But Vitlcab3lllllba..
is a distinct arud sepa1-.ate reg.ion and there is 110 koown e-0m–
munication between tne one settlement and the other. Supposmg._
the Jaitter be true, how then is it possible to accoun t for the .fact
(that) twenty or more years after the Conquoot by th~ Spanuw:ds.
they were able to seeure knowledge of that pre-h1stonc city
while nothing of th ·s natnre is ment~o -ed by theº writers
In Maehu Picc u ·
There is the aoan on d
even been done. Tb.
by the
work.
n t olllly a question of í,solated ruins.
it e1f in which no 11é-build1ng haiS
que i being hidl1en, and detenorated
ha is d;isintegratmg the mass1ve stone
VITCOS AND VILCABAMBA. - T.h~ part -Of Antisuyu, t()
whicli Mainco tled ai.te.r the Couquest with his vourt and J.Ouowors
in 1536 to constitute his gove.rnment ( which althou~n epnemeraJ.
nov-ertheless !asted thirty-five y~r ) 1lies 200 k1.1lJomeoers rrom
Cuzco, a1td its approaieh is through a valley of VHcan·ota.
La Vitcos or Viticos, whiich writers doo.cribe as beui.g the last
capital of the I11cais, has beeu definitely ident~died by !Jr. .tluam
Bingham from his researches in the expeda ... u maue in ll112.
Ur- to that time no one seemed •to know the ongiu or that popUJi.a1;e.
Some say the cwpital was Coqquequirau, in the vaHey of the –
rimac, but others among them Dr. Bingham believe it to be Machu.
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