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Colca Canyon Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru, located about 160 kilometres (99 mi) northwest of Arequipa. It is Peru's third most-visited tourist destination with about 120,000 visitors annually.[1] With a depth of 3,270 metres (10,730 ft),[2] it is one of the deepest in the world. The Colca Valley is a colorful Andean valley with pre-Inca roots, and towns founded in Spanish colonial times, still inhabited by people of the Collagua and the Cabana cultures. The local people maintain their ancestral traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces.
Machu Picchu Machu Picchu (/ˈmɑːtʃuː ˈpiːktʃuː/[1][2][3][4][5][6] or /-ˈpiːtʃuː/,[3][7][8] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmatʃu ˈpi(k)tʃu],[9] Quechua: Machu Pikchu[10] [ˈmɑtʃu ˈpiktʃu]) is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level.[11][12] It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District in Peru,[13] above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows.