ANCIENT PERUVIANS and the WORLD.

Few people in the world realize how much they owe to the ancient people of the Andes. They gave to the world the many varieties of potatoes and corn. Their knowledge of agriculture has never been surpassed. The fine textiles and the beautiful pottery equaled the best that Egypt could offer.
The Incas governed their millions of subjects with firmness and justice under a benevolent system that allowed no one to be hungry or cold.
They had no written language, not even hieroglyphics. What we know about them has had to depend on what they left, aided by the chronicles of the sixteenth century, most written looking upon through european eyes in terms of their history and politics.
This civilization found a perfect way of living in one of the most inaccessible parts of the Andes cordillera, the region lying between the Apu-rimac River and the Uru-bamba River. Two important affluents of the mighty Amazon River. Here they shared their habitat with mighty precipices, passes three miles high, granite canyons more than a mile in depth, glaciers and tropical jungles, as well as with very dangerous rapids.
In spite of these geographical challenges, they were able to build fortresses on top of very high mountains. The religious and military headquarters were placed there. The acclimatization of their bodies were obtained through a very powerful diet using their own agricultural resources.
The royal city of Vilcabamba is one of the great mysteries of the Inca's Empire. Hidden in the mountains is the last great city silently waiting to be found.
Shortly after the invasion of Cuzco, Peru, in 1533, Pizarro placed a young Inca nobleman, on the throne. In 1537, Manco Inca rebelled and fled into the myterious and remote regions of Vilcabamba.
Around 1553, Manco Inca installed his kingdom protected by the mountain of Vilcabamba.  After Manco Inca, Sayro Tupac Amaru, and Tupac Tito Cusi resisted the rebellion until 1572.
The Vilcabamba area, and the Spirit Pampa is believed to have been the long-sought "last refuge" of the noble Inca. The royal city was completely lost from the sight of the invaders. It was protected by the remnant of the Empire as a sacred shrine hidden on top of great precipices in a canyon where the secret of its existence was and still is safely buried under the shadow of Machu Picchu Sacred Mountain.
The marvel of this place holds a special beauty in the sublimity of its surroundings. There is nothing in the world that can compare to the character and the mystery of its beauty.