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Inkaterra hotels
Peruvian lodges make native orchids, rainforest research and naturalist guiding reasons to stay.
Inkaterra makes Peru’s natural and cultural landscapes the reason for the stay, from the Madre de Dios river to the cloud forest below Machu Picchu and the streets of Cusco. José Koechlin von Stein began with a jungle lodge in 1975, and the collection still places guiding, conservation, and the character of each setting at its center.
8 Inkaterra hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Founded and led by José Koechlin von Stein
- Worldwide: 8 hotels on file, in the Amazon, Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Aguas Calientes, and the Piura coast
- On the atlas: 2 Grand Luxury, 1 High Luxury, 2 Core Luxury, 2 Accessible Luxury, 1 Near Luxury
History
Inkaterra’s conservation work is closely tied to its hotels. Reserva Amazónica gives guests access to a private reserve and a canopy walkway, while Machu Picchu Pueblo cares for native orchids and a spectacled-bear rescue. Research and guide training in Madre de Dios extend the same attention to the natural world beyond the guest rooms.
Timeline
- 1975 — Koechlin opens Cusco Amazónico on the Madre de Dios, later Reserva Amazónica. Inventories of plants and animals begin within a few years. The name Inkaterra arrives in 2001.
- 1976 — He starts negotiating a former sawmill below Machu Picchu. The cloud-forest hotel will not open until 1991.
- 1991 — Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel opens, 85 casitas on five hectares.
- 2001 — The nonprofit Inkaterra Asociación is established. Reserva Amazónica takes the Inkaterra name.
- 2009 — Inkaterra La Casona opens in a 16th-century manor on Plaza Nazarenas, Cusco, 11 rooms.
- 2010 — El Mapi opens in Aguas Calientes, about 130 rooms. Hacienda Concepción opens the same year, reached by canoe, in a 1950s medical mission.
- 2015 — Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba opens in April in the Sacred Valley, 36 rooms, the sixth property at the time.
- 2017 — The Guides Field Station in Tambopata opens to paying guests as Amazon Field Station.
- 2025 — The house marks fifty years.
- 2026 — Inkaterra Cabo Blanco, 13 suites on the Piura coast, is in a soft open through 15 December.
The houses to know
- Inkaterra La Casona, Cusco, Peru — Eleven rooms in a 16th-century manor on Plaza Nazarenas, beside the Museum of Pre-Columbian Art.
- Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba, Urubamba, Peru — Thirty-six rooms in the Sacred Valley, opened April 2015, designed by Denise Guislain-Koechlin.
- Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, Aguas Calientes, Peru — Eighty-five casitas in cloud forest on a former sawmill, opened in 1991.
- Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica, Puerto Maldonado, Peru — Thirty-five thatched cabanas on the Madre de Dios, the lodge Koechlin opened around 1975.
- Inkaterra Hacienda Concepción, Puerto Maldonado, Peru — A canoe-only lodge in a 1950s medical mission, opened as an Inkaterra house in 2010.
- El Mapi byInkaterra, Machu Picchu, Peru — About 130 rooms in Aguas Calientes, opened in 2010, a walk from the train.
- Inkaterra Cabo Blanco, Piura, Peru — The hotel is in Piura, Peru.
- Amazon Field Station byInkaterra, Madre de Dios, Peru — Guest cabanas beside a guide school in the Tambopata forest, open to visitors since 2017.
Newest openings
- Inkaterra Cabo Blanco, Piura, Peru, is the newest house and still marked coming soon. Thirteen suites, the eighth property and the first on the Pacific, in a fishing village whose sport-fishing fame peaked when Alfred Glassell landed a 1,560-pound black marlin offshore in 1953. Hemingway fished here in 1956 from Miss Texas, the boat Inkaterra is restoring. The hotel record sets a soft open through 15 December 2026.
Opening next
- Inkaterra Cabo Blanco, Piura, Peru, 13 suites, soft open through 15 December 2026, as above. A room-by-room opening beyond that date is not confirmed here.
Every Inkaterra hotel on the atlas
Peru
- Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba — Urubamba · Grand Luxury
- Inkaterra La Casona — Cusco · Grand Luxury
- Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel — Aguas Calientes · High Luxury
- Inkaterra Hacienda Concepción — Puerto Maldonado · Core Luxury
- Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica — Puerto Maldonado · Core Luxury
- El Mapi byInkaterra — Machu Picchu · Accessible Luxury
- Inkaterra Cabo Blanco — Piura · Accessible Luxury
- Amazon Field Station byInkaterra — Madre de Dios · Near Luxury
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