People Are Sneaking Into Machu Picchu: There Were 92,000 Others Between 2024 and 2025 and They Could Cause Damage
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The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu suffered an overload of 91,836 people between 2024 and 2025, warned the Comptroller General of Peru in a study released on Wednesday that detailed that the income of thousands of people was not counted and on certain dates the allowed capacity was exceeded, which causes damage to the famous monument.The state agency, in charge of supervising and controlling the use of public resources and goods, stated that this …
Machu Picchu receives more than 1.5 million visitors a year and is Peru's main tourist destination.
Progressive deterioration threatens its conservation and even threatens to lose the category of cultural heritage of humanity granted by UNESCO, alert from Comptrollership.
The most famous Inca city, Machu Picchu, still holds many secrets. Another one has just been discovered.
The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) revealed that, in the years 2024 and 2025, the Inca city of Machu Picchu (Llaqta) in Cusco had an overload of visitors that reached 91,836 people, because their income was not counted as part of the permitted capacity, generating the progressive deterioration of the Historical Sanctuary. This represents a threat to its conservation and even the risk of losing the category of cultural heritage of huma…
The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu suffered an overload of 91,836 people between 2024 and 2025, warned the Comptroller General of Peru in a study...
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