Geologists May Have Finally Solved The Secret of Machu Picchu's Strange Location

REALLY?? I didn't know the location was any strange nor a secret!

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The secret may lie deep below this iconic Incan city, in the faults where tectonic plates meet. These faults produced an abundance of stone over millions of years, eventually giving the Incas the building materials they needed.

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And it's not just an abundance of building materials that would have drawn the Incas to the site of Machu Picchu, up on its 2,430-metre (7,973-foot) mountain ridge. The same fractures that provided stone also make for excellent drains.

That would've helped citizens avoid disastrous flooding during the heavy rainstorms that can happen in the region, and is likely to be one of the reasons why the Machu Picchu site is so well preserved today – still standing to accommodate more than 1.5 million visitors a year.


Less than 50% . I'll let you click above and read the rest and see the pretty pictures.