Everything about Vilcabamba Peru totally explained
Vilcabamba was a city founded by
Manco Inca in 1539 and was the last refuge of the
Inca Empire until it fell to the
Spaniards in 1572, signalling the end of Inca resistance to Spanish rule.
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 called
Espíritu Pampa, but he failed to realize its significance, preferring to believe that
Machu Picchu, which he also rediscovered, was the fabled "Lost City of the Incas". It wasn't until the explorations and discoveries of
Antonio Santander and
Gene Savoy in the 1960s, however, that many came to see this site at Espíritu Pampa as the real Vilcabamba of legend.
In 1976 Prof.
Edmundo Guillen and Polish explorers
Tony Halik and
Elżbieta Dzikowska again found the ruins. However, before the expedition in a museum in
Seville Guillen discovered letters from Spaniards, in which they were describing the progress of the invasion and what they found in Vilcabamba. Comparison between the letters' content and the ruins provided additional proof of the location of Vilcabamba.
Later archeological work by
Vincent Lee and research by
John Hemming gave further confirmation that Espíritu Pampa was generally accepted as the historical Vilcabamba.
On
16 June 2006 in a museum in Cuzco a plaque that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the Vilcabamba discovery has been unveiled. Among others there are the names of the "first proof expedition": Guillen, Halik and Dzikowska.
In popular culture
The lost city of Vilcabamba features in the educational computer game series
The Amazon Trail, the
Tomb Raider video game and its remake, and the book
Evil Star by
Anthony Horowitz. Vilcabamba is also a playable level in the
Playstation 2
role-playing game .
The city was the location of British writer
Colin Thubron's 2002 novel,
To the Last City (2002). It was short-listed for the
Man Booker Prize, and tells the story of a group of people who set off to explore the ruins of the Inca city in what has been described as a "Heart of Darkness narrative" in a "Marquezian setting".
Gallery
Image:Vilcabamba tree.jpg|Tree over structure.
Image:Vilcabamba 1.jpg|Vilcabamba view.
Image:Vilcabamba 2.jpg|Vilcabamba Inca water fall view.
Image:Vilcabamba water.jpg|Vilcabamba Inca water fall view.
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