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On a mountainside above Peru’s Urubamba Valley, six pink-granite blocks stand together on Temple Hill. The largest rises more than four metres. Its face is flattened, small joints meet along the edges, and the whole row sits on a steep slope nearly 2,800 metres above sea level. Below are terraces, water channels, and a town that is still inhabited.
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On a mountainside above Peru’s Urubamba Valley, six pink-granite blocks stand together on Temple Hill. The largest rises more than four metres. Its face is flattened, small joints meet along the edges, and the whole row sits on a steep slope nearly 2,800 metres above sea level. Below are terraces, water channels, and a town that is still inhabited.
On a mountainside above Peru’s Urubamba Valley, six pink-granite blocks stand together on Temple Hill. The largest rises more than four metres. Its face is flattened, small joints meet along the edges, and the whole row sits on a steep slope nearly 2,800 metres above sea level. Below are terraces, water channels, and a town that is still inhabited.
On a mountainside above Peru’s Urubamba Valley, six pink-granite blocks stand together on Temple Hill. The largest rises more than four metres. Its face is flattened, small joints meet along the edges, and the whole row sits on a steep slope nearly 2,800 metres above sea level. Below are terraces, water channels, and a town that is still inhabited.
On a mountainside above Peru’s Urubamba Valley, six pink-granite blocks stand together on Temple Hill. The largest rises more than four metres. Its face is flattened, small joints meet along the edges, and the whole row sits on a steep slope nearly 2,800 metres above sea level. Below are terraces, water channels, and a town that is still inhabited.
On a mountainside above Peru’s Urubamba Valley, six pink-granite blocks stand together on Temple Hill. The largest rises more than four metres. Its face is flattened, small joints meet along the edges, and the whole row sits on a steep slope nearly 2,800 metres above sea level. Below are terraces, water channels, and a town that is still inhabited.