Machu Q'inti (
Quechua ''machu'' old, old person, ''q'inti''
hummingbird
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[Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)] ''Q'inti'' a place nearby, "old Q'inti", hispanicized spelling ''Machuquente'', also Machu Q'ente) is an archaeological site in
Peru. It is situated in the
Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...
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Urubamba Province,
Machupicchu District.
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"Grupo arqueológico de Machuquente", retrieved on February 24, 2014 Machu Q'inti is situated above the left bank of the
Willkanuta River, near the archaeological sites of
Wayna Q'inti (Quechua for young Q'inti),
Willkaraqay
Huillca Raccay or Huillca Racay (possibly from Quechua ''willka'' grandchild / great-grandson / lineage / minor god in the Inca culture, an image of the Vilcanota valley worshipped as God / holy, sacred, divine, ''willka'' or ''wilka'' ''Anadenan ...
and
Patallaqta which is also named Q'inti Marka (Quechua for hummingbird village).
References
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Archaeological sites in Peru
Archaeological sites in Cusco Region