Machu Picchu (Quechua Southern Pikchu machu, "Old Mountain") is the contemporary name given to a llaqta (Inca Andean town house) of mainly stone built mid-fifteenth century on the rocky promontory that connects the mountains and Machu Picchu Huayna Picchu in the eastern slopes of the Central Andes in southern Peru. Its original name would have been Picho Picchu.