It should be noted that the Inca constructions of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu were characterized by forms adapted to the conditions of the land on which they settled.

Natural planes Reserved soils for farmland and moved home uses construction or other land in the hillsides.

Thus, most of his works were made non-agricultural use in rocky, irregular or non-arable slopes.

Moreover, when there were flat terrain as befits most of the Andean territory enabled them in the form of terraces, and produced artificially efficient fields for cultivation and housing.

Machu Picchu is thus not an exceptional case. So both this site and most of the settlements are built on Inca terraces are stepped, with its paths and networks turned into staircases.