Built around 1450 under the Inca emperor Pachacuti, abandoned a century later, and made world-famous after American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911. The name in Quechua means 'old peak' / 'old mountain'. The Chinese transliteration uses
丘 ('hill') for both syllables of 'picchu' / 'pichu' — a rare repetition that makes the name visually distinctive.
