Vilcabamba, Peru
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Vilcabamba was founded by Manco Inca in 1539 and was the last city of the Inca Empire until it fell to the Spaniards in 1572. That meant the end of Inca resistance to Spanish rule.
[change] History
After the Incan empire fell, the city was burned and the area swiftly became a remote backwater of Peru. The location of Vilcabamba was forgotten.
The ruins of the city were rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1909 in a remote forest site 130 km west of Cuzco, but he failed to realize its significance, because he beleived that Machu Picchu, which he also rediscovered, was the fabled "Lost City of the Incas". It wasn't until explorations and discoveries in the 1960s, that many came to see this site at Espíritu Pampa as the real Vilcabamba of legend.
[change] Sources
- MacQuarrie, Kim: The Last Days of the Incas. Simon & Schuster, 2007. ISBN 978-0743260497.