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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 .
The plain of Anta contains some of the best communal cultivated lands of the Department of Cusco. It is located about 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) above sea level and is used to cultivate mainly high altitude crops such as potatoes, tarwi (edible lupin), barley and quinoa.
It consists of two areas: the first is the Monumental Zone established by the Peruvian government in 1972, and the second one—contained within the first one—is the World Heritage Site established by UNESCO in 1983 under the name of City of Cuzco (Spanish: Ciudad del Cusco), [2] where a selected number of buildings are marked with the ...
The province of Cusco is located in the southern highlands of Peru and is the smallest of thirteen provinces ... Cuzco: 116.22 km 2: 108,798* 28,476 936.1 3,399 msl ...
Thus, the Intendancy of Cuzco led to the current Department of Cusco, and the old districts gave rise to the contemporary provinces. In the case of Cusco, on June 21, 1825, Simón Bolívar issued a decree creating the Cusco Province and establishing a municipality in it, which, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of 1823 ...
The approximate date is unknown, but thanks to vestiges it is agreed that the site where the city is located was already inhabited 3000 years ago. [ citation needed ] Ancient chronicles like those of the chronicler Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1530-1592) affirm the existence of ethnic groups in the valley of Cusco before the appearance of the ...
Historic Centre of Cuzco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located ... Cuzco (Madrid Metro), a station on Line 10 in Madrid, Spain; Cuzco, ... Wikipedia® is a ...
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.