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While the Inca people certainly used the Andean mountain top (9060 feet elevation), erecting many hundreds of stone structures from the early 1400’s, legends and myths indicate that Machu Picchu (meaning ‘Old Peak’ in the Quechua language) was revered as a sacred place from a far earlier time. Whatever its origins, the Inca turned the site into a small (5 square miles) but extraordinary city. Invisible from below and completely self-contained, surrounded by agricultural terraces sufficient to feed the population, and watered by natural springs, Machu Picchu seems to have been utilized by the Inca as a secret ceremonial city. Two thousand feet above the rumbling Urubamba river, the cloud shrouded ruins have palaces, baths, temples, storage rooms and some 150 houses, all in a remarkable state of preservation. These structures, carved from the gray granite of the mountain top are wonders of both architectural and aesthetic genius. Many of the building blocks weigh 50 tons or more yet are so precisely sculpted and fitted together with such exactitude that the mortarless joints will not permit the insertion of even a thin knife blade.

One of Machu Picchu’s primary functions was that of astronomical observatory. The Intihuatana stone (meaning ‘Hitching Post of the Sun’) has been shown to be a precise indicator of the date of the two equinoxes and other significant celestial periods. The Intihuatana (also called the Saywa or Sukhanka stone) is designed to hitch the sun at the two equinoxes.

http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/peru/machu_picchu.html

Aztec Ruins National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) are between Chaco, 65 miles to the south, and Mesa Verde, 40 miles northwest. xplore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms. Look up and see original timbers holding up the roof. Search for the fingerprints of ancient workers in the stucco walls. Listen for an echo of ritual drums in the reconstructed “Great Kiva.”
http://www.nps.gov/azru/

Aztec Ruins near Mexico City: Teotihuacan, meaning ¨City of the Gods¨ in Nahuatl, is famous for its pyramids, but it offers much more than that. About 50 kilometers away from Mexico City, this is definitely a site you must see. Here you will find two giant pyramids, a variety of temples, two museums, a palace, a variety of sculptures, a garden and several plazas.
http://www.mexicologue.com/aztec-ruins-near-mexico-city.html

Here’s a link to Mayan sites around Cancun, Mexico, in the Caribbean.
http://www.cancunmayariviera.com/mayan_world.php

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