Introduction Historical context The natural setting About the disoccupation when discovered Description of Machu Picchu The agricultural sector The hanan section The main plaza and the urin section Wayna Picchu and the temple of the moon Reconstructing the past The productive activities Description of Machu Picchu The main plaza and the urin section ---------Select---------The Sacred Rockcomplex-------------------------The houses of the north------------------------The palace of threeportals-------------------------The collcas of the east-------------------------The mausoleum of theeast-------------------------The aqllawasi-------------------------The Crypt of the Condor-------------------------The houses below The crypt of the Condor North of the caves an altar carved on a great rock, with a round wall curving around behind it attracts out attention. Its south face has a wall with three deep, wide hornacinas whose peculiarity is that they have elements for fastening similar to those of the Torreon. We do not know their function but there are those who think they were "jails", in which the elements for tying serve for tying prisoners by the hands. However, there has been no document whatever found which talks about these forms of repression. Others believe they kept mummies. One could think, on the other hand, that they were like in the temple of Qorikancha in Cuzco, or in the royal mausoleum in Machu Picchu itself, there were golden images affixed to the walls of the hornacinas. In this case we could be dealing with an altar with three hornacinas which had images of gold or also, mummies and offerings. Finally, across from the patio there is an extensive building of two stories, with two doors on the upper floor and a door and five windows on the lower. This door enters elongated gardens cultivated on two very low terraces, on one of which is a fountain, the last of a chain that begins to one side of the royal mausoleum and transversally crosses the citadel. On the upper floor of the building, cubicles have been found which served as a place for breeding guinea pigs, just as Alfredo Valencia and Manuel Chavez Ballon will confirm in the excavations of 1968-1969, which would indicate that here culinary activities could could have been carried out. pag. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4