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Until the middle of the 18th century, it was the most important city in Spanish South America. The architecture and decoration combine the style of both the local population and Europe, such as in the Monastery of San Francisco , which was the site's original listing in 1988, before it was extended in 1991.
Machu Picchu lies in the Southern Hemisphere, 13.111 degrees south of the equator. [95] It is 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Cusco , on the crest of the mountain Machu Picchu, located about 2,430 meters (7,970 feet) above mean sea level , over 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) lower than Cusco, which has an elevation of 3,400 meters (11,200 ft ...
It starts on the cold desert plateau in the High Andes and ends about 150 km (93 mi) to the south, in the plains. Over the past 10 millennia, the valley has been used as a trade route by different peoples, as the most important connection between the mountains and the plains.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... you can see the location of all pre-Hispanic monuments of Perú. ... South-Central Highland 3000–1400 BC:
The wharf was built in 1811 in central Rio de Janeiro and served as the entry point for an estimated 900,000 African slaves to South America. The original Valongo Wharf was constructed on the beach with a paving of hewn stones of different shapes and sizes, in the so-called pé de moleque style.
World Heritage Sites; Site Image Location () Year listed UNESCO data Description Coro and its Port† : Falcón: 1993 658; iv, v (cultural) Founded in 1527 by the Spanish as one of the first colonial settlements in the region, the city of Coro and its port, La Vela, have preserved their urban layout and numerous historical buildings.
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The archaeological park is located in the upper basin of the Magdalena River and its primary tributaries, in the municipality of the town of San Agustin in Huila in the eastern foothills of the Colombian Massif, from which emerge the three Andean mountain ranges traversing the country from south to north in the Andean Region.