Machu Picchu

 

Is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430m above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is perhaps the most familiar icon of the Inca World. The Incas started building the "estate" around AD 1400, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.In 2007, it was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

The Floating Uros Islands (Las Islas Flotantes de los Uros), Lake Titicaca

The Uros are a pre-Incan people who live on forty-two self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca Puno, Peru and Bolivia. The Uros use bundles of dried totora reeds to make reed boats (balsas mats), and to make the islands themselves.

Lake Titicaca is located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,811m above sea level, making it the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America, (Lake Maracaibo has a larger surface area, but it is disregarded as it is directly connected to the sea).

Huascarán National Park, Ancash

Is a national park in the Cordillera Blanca, a range of the Andes. It was also pronounced as Natural Heritage of Humanity and recognized as Reserve of Biosphere Core. The highest mountain in Peru is located in the park (also named Huascarán, reaching 6,768 meters high).