Vilcabamba, Peru: Difference between revisions

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Last refuge of the [[Inca Empire]], Vilcabamba was founded by Manco Inca in 1539 and fell to the Spaniards in 1572, signalling the end of Inca resistence to Spanish rule. The city was burned and the area swiftly became a remote backwater of Peru and the ___location of Vilcabamba was lost. The ruins of the city was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1909 in remote forest site 130km west of Cuzco called Espiritu Pampa, but he failed to realize it's significance, prefering to believe that [[Machu Picchu]], which he also rediscovered, was the fabled 'Lost City of the Incas'. It wasn't until the 1980's, after archeological work by Gene Savoy and Vincent Lee, and research by John Hemmings, that Espiritu Pampa was generally accepted as the historical Vilcabamba.