<div class="text-justify">Good Night, greetings
I am a new member of this great community steemit and @steemchurch, nervous about participating in #celestialchallenge and fascinated by the initiative of @sirknight. The theme to share today is "Wednesday-Structures"
<center>**Macchu Picchu**</center>
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One of the great wonders of the world that I would like to know is Machu Picchu and I want the entire steemit community to be interested and know this wonder of Latin America.
Machu Picchu ("Old Mountain") is the contemporary name given to a llaqta -an ancient Inca town built before the fifteenth century on the rocky promontory that links the Machu Picchu, Putucusi and Huayna Picchu mountains on the eastern slope of the mountain range Central, south of Peru and 2490 m s. n. m., altitude of its main square. Its original name would have been Llaqtapata.
According to documents from the mid-sixteenth century, Machu Picchu would have been one of the rest homes of Pachacutec, ninth Inca of Tahuantinsuyo between 1438 and 1470. However, some of its best buildings and the obvious ceremonial nature of the main access road to the llaqta account for its origin prior to Pachacutec and its presumed use as a religious sanctuary. Both uses, the palace and the sanctuary, would not have been incompatible. Even when its supposed military character is discussed, so the popular qualifiers of fortress or citadel could have been overcome.
Machu Picchu is considered at the same time a masterpiece of architecture and engineering. Its peculiar architectural and landscape features, and the veil of mystery that has woven around it much of the literature published on the site, have made it one of the most popular tourist destinations on the planet.
Machu Picchu is on the Unesco World Heritage List since 1983, as part of a whole cultural and ecological group known as the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu. On July 7, 2007 Machu Picchu was declared one of the new seven wonders of the modern world in a ceremony held in Lisbon (Portugal), which was attended by one hundred million voters around the world
<center>**GEOGRAPHY**</center>
The set of the archaeological site has been built on the Vilcabamba batholith, composed of intrusive rocks that date approximately 250 million years ago, Permian-Triassic intrusive mainly from white to grayish granite, cut by some veins of tonalites and talceschistos. The granite massif is cut by a series of faults and diaclases that play an important role in the current shape of the relief and its evolution. In the Geological Map of the Machu Picchu Quadrangle (27-q) of the Mining and Metallurgical Geological Institute of Peru there are two major regional fault lines that cut the area, called Fallas Huayna Picchu and Machu Picchu, oriented NE-SO. These failures have not had recent activity
There is solid evidence that the builders took into account astronomical criteria and rituals for construction according to the studies of Dearborn, White, Thomson and Reinhard, among others. Indeed, the alignment of some important buildings coincides with the solar azimuth during the solstices in a constant manner and therefore not at all casual, with the points of sunrise and sunset of the sun at certain times of the year and with the summits of the surrounding mountains
>Hebrew 3: 4. Because every house has its builder but the builder of everything is God
"Men work to build their homes and do wonders of structures in all parts of the world, but it is through God that their thinking, skills and creativity are illuminated to do great things"</div>
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