Editing Machu Picchu (section)

====Spanish conquest====
In the late 16th century, Spaniards who had recently gained control of the area documented that indigenous individuals mentioned returning to "Huayna Picchu", the name that is believed to be originally given to the site by locals.<ref name=":0" /> The Spanish conquistador [[Baltasar de Ocampo]] had notes of a visit during the end of the 16th century to a mountain fortress called ''Pitcos'' with sumptuous and majestic buildings, erected with great skill and art, all the [[lintels]] of the doors, as well the principal as the ordinary ones, being of marble and elaborately carved.<ref>{{cite book |last1=De Ocampo |first1=Baltasar |translator-last=Markham |translator-first=Sir Clements |translator-link=Clements Markham |title=An Account of the Province of Vilcapampa and a Narrative of the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru (1610) |publisher=York University |publication-place=[[Cambridge, Ontario|Cambridge]] |page=11 |url=https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/ocampo_markham.pdf}}</ref>

Over the centuries, the surrounding jungle overgrew the site, and few outside the immediate area knew of its existence. The site may have been re-discovered and plundered in 1867 by a German businessman, {{ill|Augusto Berns|de}}.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7439397.stm |title= Machu Picchu ruin 'found earlier' |work=BBC News |author=Dan Collyns |date=6 June 2008}}</ref> Some evidence indicates that the German engineer J. M. von Hassel arrived earlier. Maps show references to Machu Picchu as early as 1874.<ref>{{cite news |last=Romero |first=Simon |title=Debate Rages in Peru: Was a Lost City Ever Lost? |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/world/americas/08peru.html|date=7 December 2008}}</ref> A 1904 atlas designated the site as Huayna Picchu.<ref name=":0" />