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Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is located at an altitude of 2,430 meters, in a beautiful tropical mountain forest. It is probably the most amazing urban building of the heyday of the Inca Empire; its huge walls, terraces and slopes seem to have been naturally carved out of the continuous rock cliffs. The natural environment is located on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains, including the upper Amazon River basin, and is rich in flora and fauna.
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
The national park is one of the largest (1,523,000 hectares) and best preserved in the Amazon Basin. The park ranges in altitude from 200 to nearly 1,000 meters and contains a variety of habitat types, from Cerrado savannah and forest to high evergreen Amazon forest. The park's evolutionary history dates back more than a billion years to the Cambrian period. The park is home to approximately 4,000 plant species, more than 600 bird species, and many globally endangered or threatened vertebrate populations.