Vilcabamba, the Last Refuge of the Incas: Hiram Bingham’s Chronicle of Its Discovery at Espiritu Pampa (1914)

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Hiram Bingham (1875 – 1956) used to be an academic, explorer and flesh presser from the USA. He made public the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers. Later, Bingham served as a member of the USA Senate.

Vilcabamba , Willkapampa or Espíritu Pampa used to be a city founded by Manco Inca in 1539 and used to be the capital of the Neo-Inca State, the last refuge of the Inca Empire until it fell to the Spaniards in 1572, signaling the end of Inca resistance to Spanish rule. The city used to be then destroyed and lost, and it’s the fabled “Lost city of the Incas”, a title ceaselessly incorrectly applied to the more famous Machu Picchu.

In 1911, Hiram Bingham with his book Lost City of the Incas brought to public attention the web site of the ruins of the city on the remote forest web site then referred to as Espíritu Pampa, 81 miiles west of Cuzco. Bingham, on the other hand, did not realize its significance and believed that Machu Picchu used to be the fabled “Vilcabamba”, lost city and last refuge of the Incas.

This book at the start published in 1914 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional imperfection from the original publication or from the reformatting.

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