Vilcabamba, Peru
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/22349
- Note
- "Vilcabamba (in hispanicized spelling), Willkapampa (Aymara and Quechua) is often called the Lost City of the Incas. Vilcabamba means "sacred plain" in Quechua. The modern name for the Inca ruins of Vilcabamba is Espiritu Pampa (Plain of the Spirits). Vilcabamba is located in Echarate District of La Convención Province in the Cuzco Region of Peru.
Vilcabamba was the capital of the Neo-Inca State from 1539 to 1572. The Neo-Inca State was the last refuge of the Inca Empire until it fell to the Spaniards and their indigenous allies in 1572, signaling the end of Inca resistance to Spanish rule. Subsequently, Vilcabamba was abandoned and its location forgotten. In 1911 explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Inca ruins called Espiritu Pampa by local Peruvians. In 1964, Gene Savoy identified the ruins of Espiritu Pampa as the fabled Vilcabamba, a designation widely accepted by archaeologists and historians." - (en.wikipedia.org 04.04.2020) - Latitude
- -12.902777671814
- Longitude
- -73.205833435059
- Time zone
- America/Lima
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