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Areas south of the twenty-fourth parallel with elevations up to 1,000 meters (3,281 ft) (the southern parts of both coastal plains as well as the Yucatán Peninsula), have a desert climate and a yearly median temperature between 24 and 28 °C (75.2 and 82.4 °F).
Réunion: Interior (beaches are tropical) São Tomé and Príncipe: Pico de São Tomé 1; Somalia: Erigavo 1; Somaliland: Hargeisa; South Africa: most of including Bloemfontein, Cape Town 1, Durban, George 1, Johannesburg 1, Kimberley, Musina, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth 1, and Pretoria. South Sudan: Imatong Mountains (highest areas only)
View of Cusco from above Sacsayhuaman ruins. Following the siege of Cusco, the Spaniards began to use Sacsayhuamán as a source of stones for building Spanish Cuzco; within a few years, they had taken apart and demolished much of the complex. The site was destroyed block by block to salvage materials with which to build the new Spanish ...
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (Spanish pronunciation:; Quechua: Qusqu suyu [ˈqɔsqɔ ˈsʊjʊ]), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto.
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 ...
Cusco was long an important center of indigenous people. It was the capital of the Inca Empire (13th century – 1532). Many believe that the city was planned as an effigy in the shape of a puma, a sacred animal. [21] How Cusco was specifically built, or how its large stones were quarried and transported to the site remain undetermined.
The interior of the church still has the original 17th-century layout and interior design, [9] but the church was looted several times during Mexico's history so much of its decoration is lost. [31] However, one significant image here is the "Señor de la Conquista", which was made of cornstalk paste by indigenous people in Michoacán.
Monterey Colonial style house at Rancho Petaluma Adobe. Monterey Colonial is an architectural style developed in Alta California (today's US state of California when under Mexican rule).