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The mountain Veronica looms over the Sacred Valley. Sacred Valley of the Incas. The Sacred Valley of the Incas (Spanish: Valle Sagrado de los Incas; Quechua: Willka Qhichwa), or the Urubamba Valley, is a valley in the Andes of Peru, north of the Inca capital of Cusco. It is located in the present-day Peruvian region of Cusco.
Cusco or Cuzco [d] (Latin American Spanish:; Quechua: Qosqo or Qusqu, both pronounced) is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountain range and the Huatanay river. It is the capital of the eponymous province and department .
In the years following the Spanish raids, the Incas and the Spaniards maintained uneasy diplomatic relations with visits back and forth between Vilcabamba and Cuzco, the Spanish capital. The murder of a Spanish envoy by the Incas persuaded Viceroy of Peru Francisco de Toledo to conquer the Vilcabamba region and end Inca rule.
The Kingdom of Cusco (sometimes spelled Cuzco and in Quechua Qosqo or Qusqu), also called the Cusco confederation, [2] was a small kingdom based in the Andean city of Cusco that began as a small city-state founded by the Incas around the start of 13th century.
Inca aqueduct at Tipón in Cusco, Peru. Aqueducts can also be found at the archeological site at Tipón. Located thirteen miles east of Cuzco in the Cuzco Valley, this ensemble of ruins was once an estate for the Inca elite and nobility. The aqueducts of this area are set atop walls that predate the Inca occupation of the area.
Huchuy Qosqo, (also spelled Yuchuy Cuzco), is an Incan archaeological site north of Cuzco, Peru.Its name is Quechua for "Little Cuzco." It lies at an elevation of 3,650 meters (11,980 feet), overlooking the Sacred Valley and 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west and above the town of Lamay at an elevation of 2,920 metres (9,580 ft). [1]
Today, Quechua and Aymara remain the most widespread Amerindian languages. Once the viceroyalty was established, the condition of the Inca nobility was not accepted by the encomenderos , since they believed that this social class could lead uprisings and revolutions, as happened during the Manco Inca rebellion, however, for a century, the ...
It is renowned as a rich deposit of fossils and a tourist destination. The Tatacoa Desert has two distinctive colors: ochre in the area of Cuzco and gray in the Los Hoyos area. The Tatacoa, or the Valley of Sorrows, as it was called in 1538 by the conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, is not a barren desert but rather a tropical dry forest ...