Vilcabamba: Fabled Redoubt of the Urubamba Region

摘要: West of the main Urubamba River, a mountain fastness sliced through by two tributaries, Vilcabamba and Cosereni, has snowcap-to-jungle ecology. The fragmented topography this remote area called provided last refuge for Incas after Spanish Conquest 1532. Spaniards gained control zone only in 1570s, motivated presence Inca mines precious metals. Its isolation hidden ruins gave its reputation as being land mystery. Two accounts seek to capture some character. One is that extraordinary experience an American geographer, Stuart White, who went 1980 stayed 2 years. other my own 1964 expedition seeking site la Vieja. log made from trip placed retrospective context future discussed.