Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra has launched a campaign to restore vegetation around the archaeological site of Machu Picchu to protect it from landslides and forest fires. According to the head of state, around this stunning citadel of ancient Incas, a million trees will be planted in the near future on an area of the archaeological complex of 35 thousand hectares.
This is the second measure taken over the past eight months to protect Peru's most popular tourist destination. In May, Peru announced a restriction to three key areas of the site to prevent greater degradation: the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Condor and the Intihuatana Stone.
Translated from Quechua, "Machu Pikchu" means "Old Mountain." Historians suggest that it was built around 1440 as the residence of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the great ninth ruler of the Incas (1438-1471), and functioned until the Spanish invasion of the empire in 1532.
To this day, the mystery remains unsolved why in 1532 all the inhabitants suddenly disappeared. For more than 400 years, this city was forgotten and remained in desolation.
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