The 1954 film Secret of the Incas was filmed by Paramount Pictures on location at Cusco and Machu Picchu,
the first time that a major Hollywood studio filmed on site. Five hundred indigenous people

The ruins of Machu Picchu are divided into two main sections known as the Urban and Agricultural Sectors, divided by a wall. The Agricultural Sector is further subdivided into Upper and Lower

Machu Picchu is located above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Built around AD 1450 at the height of the Inca Empire, it was abandoned in 1572 due to the Spanish Conquest, but most of its inhabitants