Why was machu picchu built?

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ASTRO-BLASTER

Actually, even the experts are still not sure why it was built.
I was there about a month ago and it is an amazing place.
The entire complex is about the size of several football fields spread across the top of a high mountain ridge.
According to our tour guide Machu Picchu was:
Was built long before the Spanish got to the Americas.
Has several temples including sophisticated sundials and a sun room, a temple devoted to the condor and a massive rock carved to mimic the mountain behind it.
The entire complex was burned and abandoned until the Spanish arrived and M.P. was reclaimed by the Incan Emperor.
It was never discovered during the time of the conquistadors but was later "discovered" in 1911.
By the way, the complex could house about 500 people however the terraces, used to groe crops, could only support a small portion of that number.
Our guide supposed that the Inca were trying to grow crops that would sustain them ans their people steadily took over the jungles of South America (which are just to the East of Machu Picchu.)
You should hike the 50 mile Inca Trail and visit some day.
I hope that this will help

PyroGentalia

Its a city. It was built for people to live in...

creativetravelers

There were different reasons, here some of them:

1.-To adapt plantations crops and make hibrids with them from the jungle areas at 1000 feet as average such as Coca, Peppers, peanuts, Yuca (manioc) at 8000 feet.
2.-To make a simbolic conection with the cosmos and the milky way.
3.-Machu Picchu is build at the center of snow mountains a sacred center. (The snow mountains are considered spiritual forces that rule the fate of people in the andes).
4.-Secret location at the edge of precipices to avoid to be disturb by some others tribes or foreigners civilizations.
5.-The Incas wanted their citadels to be located in the upper part of the mountains closer to their gods and deities.
6.- Read and subscribe to Newsletters of SAMJ to find out more information at http://www.southamericamyjourney.com/travel/newsletters/newsletters.php?status=1&Id=2

SergioPL

Some important Peruvian historians just came up with another explanation about the foundation of Machu Picchu.

They believe that the citadel was built by Tupac Yupanqui, the 10th Inca, to relocate his father the Inca Pachacutec (Pachacuti) in order to be able to take over the Incan Empire (Tahuantinsuyu) without having to harm him.
In other words, Tupac Yupanqui built Machu Picchu as a totally luxurious retirement place for Pachacuti and basically sent him there to become the Inca.

This new theory contradicts the one that explains that the citadel was built during the Spanish invasion to hide from them, since it was proven that Macu Picchu was built long time before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors.

walter c

Machupicchu was constructed by it to join the peoples(villages) by means of ways.
http://pumasadventures.net
http://eldoradoexpeditions.com
http://inca-trail-peru.net

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