By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor
38. Did the Spaniards know of Machu Picchu? Hiram Bingham didn't think so. "Yet so far as I have been able to discover, there is no reference in the Spanish chronicles to Machu Picchu. It is possible that not even the conquistadors ever saw this wonderful place."
Though today we have knowledge of others visiting Machu Picchu prior to Hiram Bingham there remains no evidence that the Spanish ever found the city.
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