Are recovered the visits at Machu Picchu after reopening.[English]
A total of 157 000 203 tourists visited the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu to three months after its reopening after the rainstorm that damaged the railway line allowing access to the archaeological site, according to the National Institute of Culture (INC) in the Cusco.
The institution said that in April 43 000 302 visitors came, four thousand 848 of them through the Inca Trail, also reopened to the public on the first day of the reopening, which occurred on April 1.
Remarked that in May was register had the highest number of visits with 58 000 856. Of this number of tourists, five thousand five hundred came by the Inca Trail, a route followed on foot it takes between three and four días.En June, the level was maintained with a total of 55 000 45 visitors. On June 26, two days after the celebration of Inti Raymi in Cusco, was the largest number of entry of tourists to Machu Picchu with two thousand 576.
For his part in Machu Picchu Pueblo is scheduled for Tuesday a parade and the giving of gifts to visitors as part of the festivities for the third anniversary of chosen as one of the seven new wonders of the date mundo.The central date, Wednesday 7, is planned ceremony to thank the Pachamama (earth) and a Mass and Te Deum. In the afternoon there will be a parade of local institutions and a presentation artística.The heritage Machu Picchu was elected one of the seven new wonders in a worldwide competition organized by the Foundation New 7 Wonders.The Inca citadel was registered in 1983 in the list of World Heritage Sites by Unesco.
