In Quechua language it means Monte Viejo or Old Mountain. Name of a Peruvian archaeological site, declared historical heritage of humanity. Name of a Peruvian city, also called Aguas Calientes, in the Province of Urubamba. Name of a mountain in the Peruvian Andes, which is part of the Salcantay massif, in Cuzco, Peru. Name given to an asteroid 8277. It was initially designated 1991 GV8 by astronomers. Name of a song by Camilo and Evaluna Montaner. Name of Peruvian Scientific Base of Antarctica.
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".
Machu PicchuSi taking into account the profiles of the mountains of Machu Picchu, and also taking into account a desk that says: this human profile formed by the mountains of Machu Picchu, presents Chin, mouth, a rather disproportionate nose and a cleft formed by a small depression that gives shape to the eye. It is very interesting to see the formation that resembles the mouth, seems to be a detail perfected by the same mountain, the native name of Machu Picchu must have been chupi Shumaj which means beautiful vagina. The first that knew this name, possibly, were of a moral that considered said name as something immoral, scandalous. And they changed the name to Machu Picchu. This succeeded it in turning the chupi Shumaj name Word-by-Word. Name that to the run this operation are converted in Maj-shu pichu. Name that becomes in Machu Picchu at run time. That name native not be can be considered immoral or scandalous. As the native, to a place, you put the name according to their characteristics physical. And also the vagina is the body more important for the life of the humanity and very respectable in the try social.
