Plessy v. Ferguson, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial âseparate but equalâ doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.
The sanctuary is located in the district of Machu Picchu, in the province of Urubamba in the department of Cusco. It spans one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the world. It has an area of 32,592 hectares. The built area in Machu Picchu includes 172 campuses; it has 530 meters long by 200 wide. There are two areas in the complex; both zones are separated by a wall, a moat and a staircase, elements that run parallel to the slope east of the mountain.
situated two thousand feet above the urubamba river and invisible from below the cloud shrouded city contains palaces baths temples storage buildings and around 140 houses all in a good state of preservation spread over approximately 5 square miles machu picchu housed a population of around 750 to 1200 people it consists of a number of sectors or districts which relate to the activities which were carried out there these are agricultural which consists of terraces constructed by the inca