By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor
57. It's unclear why Machu Picchu was abandoned, but some say it may have been because water was scarce. (That seems unlikely, given the attention to engineering and hydrology at the site, as evidenced, partly, by the irrigation system.) Others blame the Spanish conquest.
One theory includes that as Machu Picchu was a royal retreat underwent a bloody civil war between Huascar and Atahualpa there was little need for a retreat at the time.
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