Meaning of machu picchu by furoya

It is an ancient Inca city that today is a tourist and archaeological center, considered since 2007 one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The name became popular thanks to archaeologist Hiram Bingham and his articles for the publication of the National Geographic Society; since at the beginning of the twentieth century he found an abandoned Inca city that the locals called Machu ("ancient, eminent, venerable" in Quechua), which in some records coincided with the ancient city of Pijchu, a voice that is supposed to be a local variant of the Spanish pico ("mountain summit"), by the mountains of the Urubamba Valley (Cusco region, Peru ) where it was . Joining both names formed the current Machu Picchu, which can be translated as "ancient mountain" or perhaps "prominence of the hills". Anyway, none of these seems to be its original name, which for the Incas could be Patallaqta, for pata ("step") llaqta ("village of migrants") which is interpreted as "city of the terraces".