Ollantaytambo by junge1

Photography • Urban/Cityscape • posted on Dec 13, 2016

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Ollantaytambo, known by locals and visitors as Ollanta, is the last town on the way to Machu Picchu that can be reached by road. The town is dominated by two massive Inca ruins. It is the best surviving example of Inca city planning, with narrow cobblestone streets that have been continuously inhabited since the 13th century. In Ollantaytamo the locals build their homes on top of the existing Inca foundations. This can be seen in this photo in the change of construction materials. The narrow streets have small drainage ditches in the center. Ollantaytamo, at an altitude of 9,160-ft, is located at the lower end of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, 58 km from Pisac, located at the upper end of the valley at an altitude of 9,514-ft. Because of the relatively shallow descend of the Urubamba River, this area has irrigated fields along both sides of the river growing mostly potatoes and corn. From Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes, a further 30.5 km downstream, the elevation has dropped to 6,693-ft and from Aguas Calientes to Iquitos, still in Peru, the distance is 1,049 km and the elevation at that city is 341-ft. Iquitos is 3,600 km (~2,250 mi) from the mouth of the Amazon where it spills into the Atlantic Ocean. This picture was taken on 26 August 2014, Sig....

Comments (17)

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photosynthesis

2:17PM | Tue, 13 December 2016

That's a lot of impressive stonework & very dramatic POV you chose...

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Desgar

2:47PM | Tue, 13 December 2016

Great POV and background info!

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ontar1

5:19PM | Tue, 13 December 2016

Fantastic, great capture!

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Madbat

6:12PM | Tue, 13 December 2016

Talk about living in the house that Grandpa built! I'd find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that my house foundations were laid in the 1200's.

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Faemike55

7:35PM | Tue, 13 December 2016

Fabulous engineering and planning! They were way ahead of European cities in a lot of respects

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jocko500

11:21PM | Tue, 13 December 2016

lovely

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kgb224

11:49PM | Tue, 13 December 2016

Superb capture my friend. God bless.

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ArtistKimberly

1:18AM | Wed, 14 December 2016

Fantastic Work,

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starship64

1:39AM | Wed, 14 December 2016

Great shot.

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Juliette.Gribnau

3:33AM | Wed, 14 December 2016

beautiful view

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durleybeachbum

3:43AM | Wed, 14 December 2016

Just fascinating!

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T.Rex

4:13AM | Wed, 14 December 2016

What amazes me is that people live there and make a living there. Nice photo illustrating the continuum in construction and life. Keep up the good work! :-)

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