Peru is making plans for a cable car link to Kuelap, high in the Andes. Kuelap, centuries older than Machu Picchu, predates the Incas. It's the largest pre-Columbian stone-built city in South America, with over 400 round houses and a 1.5 km stone wall around it.
The facility will open next year making it possible for visitors to reach the site, 3000 m. high in the mountains, without a 3-4 hour hike or a long drive on an unpaved road. Estimates are that 100,000 visitors a year might come, more than twice as many as now.
However, according to the Guardian (UK) there are also worries that numbers of small villages that depend on providing food, lodging and assistance to visitors may die when the cable car bypasses them altogether.
Photo: Wikimedia / Martin St.-Amant
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