LIMA — Protesters who blocked access last week to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu have ended their protest movement after locally-owned companies were granted the right to transport tourists to the site for four months, a Peruvian official said Monday.

“The mobilization has ended. The residents gathered in Lima, where several agreements were reached,” Oscar Luque, a representative for the Ombudsman’s Office of Peru, told AFP.

A week ago, protesters blocked train tracks to demand their interests be represented in the search for a new bus operator ferrying visitors on the last leg of a trip from the city of Cusco to Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes.

More than 1,500 visitors were evacuated amid clashes between protesters and police.

Now, two locally-owned companies will transpo

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