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	C U Z C O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cuzco, the capital of Cuzco department in southern Peru, was the capital of the INCA empire from its beginnings in the 14th century until the Spanish conquest in 1533.
		Cuzco, The " Archeological Capital of America", was the capital of the fabled Inca Empire.
		Most striking in Cuzco is the superimposition and intermingling of the three cultures: the native Quechua Indian, the conquering colonial Spanish and the moderm Mixed or "Cholos".
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6502/cuzco.htm (498 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cuzco, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It is a transportation hub and a trading center for agricultural produce and for woolen textiles produced in the Cuzco mills.
		When Francisco Pizarro entered the city in 1533, it was plundered; and on its ruins the conquerors and their descendants built the colonial city, using the ancient walls (many of which are still visible) as foundations for new buildings.
		The National Univ. of Cuzco is in the city; nearby are the ruins of the Inca fortress SacsahuamAn.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cuzco.html (325 words)

	CUZCO - LoveToKnow Article on CUZCO
		Cuzco was made the see of a bishopric soon after it was occupied by the Spaniards.
		Cuzco was the capital of a remarkable empire ruled by the Incas previous to the discovery of Peru, and it was one of the largest and most civilized of the native cities of the New World.
		The department of Cuzco is the second largest in Peru, having an area of 156,317 sq.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CUZCO.htm (575 words)

	Geometry Step by Step. Inca Geometry. Cuzco (Cusco). The Stone of Twelve Angles. Antonio Gutierrez
		Cuzco (Cusco) is located at 11,200 ft. above sea level in the Andes Mountains in Southern Peru.
		Cuzco was developed, under the Inca Pachacutec, into a complex urban centre with distinct religious and administrative functions.
		The city of Cuzco, principal city and royal court of the twelve Inka kings of this realm, and bishopric of the church.
	agutie.homestead.com /files/Cuzco.htm (510 words)

	Archaeological Sites
		Cuzco is in the middle of the Andes, at 11,217 feet above sea level.
		Cuzco means "navel", and for the Incas it was a divine place, the center of the Inca Empire and the center of the world.
		Although most of the Cuzco was later torn down and looted by the Spanish, the city’s buildings are still based on the stone foundations built by the Incas.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/south_america/cuzco.html (1138 words)

	Cusco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other nearby Inca sites are Pachacuti's presumed winter home Machu Picchu which can be reached by a lightly maintained Inca trail, the "fortress" at Ollantaytambo, and the "fortress" of Sacsayhuaman which is approximately two kilometers from Cusco.
		The surrounding area, located in the Huatanay Valley, is strong in agriculture, including corn, barley, quinoa, tea and coffee, and gold mining.
		Cuzco by Antonio Gutierrez from "Geometry Step by Step from the Land of the Incas"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuzco (669 words)

	Cuzco
		When they reached the present-day Cuzco, Manco plunged his golden staff into the ground in order to test its suitability, and it duly sank deep into the fertile land.
		Thus was the significance of Cuzco and the Sacred Valley established for many hundreds of years to come.
		Cuzco is considered the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Western Hemisphere and is of major historical importance.
	www.ladatco.com /CUZ-CUZ.HTM (378 words)

	Cuzco
		The city of Cuzco was the religious and administrative heart of the Inca Empire and today is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Americas.
		Inca Cuzco was not the largest city in the Empire, but being the heart of the empire, it retained a holy status as the home of the ruling Incas.
		Manco II was eventually defeated and during the many years of Spanish occupation the Inca architecture of the city was largely destroyed or dismantled to build new structures.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /arch499/nonwest/inca/cuzco.htm (307 words)

	Learn Spanish in Cuzco, Cusco, Peru. don Quijote Latin America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cuzco is the ancient capital of the Inca Empire and the oldest city in the American Continent.
		Cuzco has it all: art, magic, mystery and all the beauty united in the centre and the 'belly button' of the world.
		It is a region with beautiful natural views: its streets and squares, the magical majesty of the Inca monuments and the elegance of the colonial constructions illuminated by a blue sky with white clouds which fram the six hills that surround the city.
	www.donquijote.org /english/la/peru.asp (513 words)

	Cuzco, Peru
		Andean villagers descend on Cuzco to peddle their wares, and though we are reluctant shoppers, my wife and I left town with a bag filled with wedding gifts for ourselves: alpaca sweaters, delicate pottery, sublime handmade weavings colored with dyes from local plants.
		Cuzco’s central market is a sprawling bazaar where all manner of spices and vegetables and a dizzying array of animal parts are displayed alongside piles of old hardware, and where rows of tables are crammed with diners eating heaping doses of seviche for under a buck.
		Cuzco doesn’t have to be cheap: For those in pursuit of typical honeymoon-style indulgences, there are four-star hotels in converted colonial mansions, and plenty of high-end restaurants.
	www.nymagazine.com /nymetro/travel/features/winter2004/10109 (1293 words)

	Nota Cultural: Cuzco
		Although Cuzco is located at an altitude of 11,152 feet above sea level, the climate is mild.
		Cuzco was the ancient capital of the Inca empire.
		Today, in the area surrounding Cuzco, potatoes and grains are cultivated and sheep, alpaca, and llama are herded.
	www.studyspanish.com /comps/cuzco.htm (289 words)

	Cuzco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cuzco is now a bustling lively town brimming with culture and attracting thousands of visitors from all over the world each year.
		The highlights of Cuzco are its Plaza De Armas (built over the Incan palace of Huacaypata) and it's many colorful surrounding streets and alleyways that generate from it.
		Located in the heart of the Sacred Valley, Cuzco is not only packed with a luxuriance of things to see and do within it's own boundaries but it is also a strategic portal to many exciting day trips.
	www.glennstevens.biz /cuzco.htm (1454 words)

	Photos Cuzco, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Ballestas Island, Pisco, Pictures Mon-Photo
		Cuzco was the capital of Tahuantinsuyu (or Inca Empire).
		Each local leader was required to build a house in the city and live part of the year in Cuzco, but only in the quarter of Cuzco that corresponded to the quarter of the empire he had territory in.
		The major earthquake that hit Cuzco in 1950 badly destroyed the Dominican Priory and Church of Santo Domingo, which were built on top of Korikancha, but the city's Inca architecture firmly withstood the earthquake.
	www.mon-photo.com /South_America/Peru_2/Peru_en.htm (1228 words)

	Dave's Travel Corner [Cuzco, Peru]
		Cuzco the "tiled" city situated at about 10,600 feet high in the Andes is best known as the gateway to the famous Incan ruins of Machu Picchu.
		Cuzco as a result of being situated so close to Machu Picchu is an international city full of tourist services including a plethora of hotels, restaurants, travel agencies and shops.
		Cuzco is a city known for thieves who prey on unsuspecting or even suspecting tourists.
	www.davestravelcorner.com /articles/cuzco (296 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Bauer, Ancient Cuzco
		The Cuzco Valley is defined in this work as the area drained by the Huatanay River (Map 1.2), which flows southeast from above the modern city of Cuzco, through the area of the Angostura (the Narrows) at approximately mid-valley, and into the Lucre Basin, where it turns northeast and enters the Vilcanota River.
		The Cuzco Basin represents the northwest end of the valley and is defined as the region between the headwaters of the Huatanay on the mountain of Huaynacorcor, northwest of Cuzco, and the distinct narrowing of the valley below the modern-day town of San Jerónimo called the Angostura, southeast of Cuzco.
		The archaeological survey of the Cuzco Valley was designed as a 100 percent coverage survey, which was necessitated by the fact that the survey data were to be analyzed in conjunction with historic information concerning the distribution of kin groups and their landholdings in the valley at the time of the Spanish Conquest.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exbauanc.html (6083 words)

	Peru: Tourism
		Cuzco lays claim to being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Americas.
		Cuzco is indisputably the most beutiful and interesting town in Peru, and one of the finest on the whole continent.
		Sacsayhuaman is a massive Inca fortress overlooking Cuzco, and one of the finest ruins in the area.
	www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF94/aurelia/pertou.htm (713 words)

	Cuzco -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In the heart of the former Inca Empire, the department is dotted...
		As the Chanca approached Cuzco, Viracocha Inca and Inca Urcon withdrew to a fort near Calca,...
		Cuzco, Peru is both an important and beautiful village.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028356?tocId=9028356 (710 words)

	Cuzco Travel Guide, Cuzco Tours and Vacation
		Toward the XII century, Manco Cápac and his sister-wife Mama Ocllo emerged from the waters of the Lake Titicaca, semi Gods daughter and son of Inti (the god Sun), with the mission of the foundation of a new Kingdom that would improve the conditions of life of the towns.
		In this time Cuzco was a city of admirable architecture made in stone with wide plazas, big temples and palaces decorated with abundant gold pieces.
		Cuzco is the most visited tourist destination in Peru, and the wealthy attractiveness in the city and its areas around, as well as "Ciudad Perdida de los Incas" (Lost City of the Incas), Machu Picchu, transforms it into one of the main tourist attractiveness of the world, offering an excellent quality of tourist services.
	www.go2peru.com /cuzco_travel_guide.htm (456 words)

	Cuzco on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The National Univ. of Cuzco is in the city; nearby are the ruins of the Inca fortress Sacsahuamán.
		Cuzco: Outlasting the conquest; Spain conquered the Inca Empire in the 1530s, and after 470 years, you'd expect the old culture to have vanished.
		Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cuzco.asp (629 words)

	INCA Southern Peru Explorer to Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Urubamba Valley, Lake Titicaca, Colca Canyon, Arequipa - Detailed ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We visit the bustling Cuzco "Mercado Central", a traditional market were we will get a sense of the daily rhythm of Cuzqueño life.
		Cuzco fills with colorfully dressed, chicha-drinking Indians from villages all over the Andes, who come for this week-long festival of folk-dance competitions, pageantry and renowned debauchery.
		We drive through fields of quinoa and amaranth before pausing for photos at a scenic spot overlooking the fertile river valley of the Urubamba-which means "butterfly" in Quechua.
	www.inca1.com /peruPQitinlong.html (1663 words)

	Cuzco, Peru
		Peel died unexpectedly Monday night in Cuzco, Peru, where he was vacationing with his wife, Sheila, the BBC reported Tuesday.
		Peel was on holiday in Cuzco, Peru, with his wife Sheila when he suffered a heart attack.
		At the time of his death of a heart attack in Cuzco, Peru, he was working on his autobiography, which is scheduled for publication next year.
	conservation.mongabay.com /Cuzco,_Peru.htm (1080 words)

	Cuzco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cuzco, at 3,471 meters (11,152 feet) above sea level, was the ancient capital of the Inca empire.
		As I mentioned in the main page for the trip the place I liked the most was Cuzco and it's surroundings.
		Cuzco is also a meca for hikers from all over the world.
	www.csdl.tamu.edu /~l0f0954/personal/2-cuzco.html (469 words)

	Buenos Aires Language School. Learn Spanish in Cuzco
		El Cuzco, the region with the most beautiful countryside on the planet crowned by six mountains more than 6,000 metres above sea level, it is the oldest city in the western hemisphere and the origin of the Inca civilisation.
		El Cuzco, a province of the region with the same name, has 105 districts and 13 provinces: Acomayo, Anta, Calca, Canas, Canchis, La Convención, Cuzco, Chumbivilcas, Espinar, Paruro, Paucartambo, Quispicanchis and Urumambla, the most populated being Convención, Canchis, Quispicanchis and Chumbibilcas.
		La City of Cuzco is in the western part of the valley of the river Watanay, situated 3,350 metres above sea level and it is one of the highest cities in the world.
	www.spanishinlatinamerica.com /english-la/cuzco.asp (402 words)

	Cuzco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The city of Cuzco is the principal one of all those where the lords of this land have their residence; it is so large and so beautiful that it would be worthy of admiration even in Spain.
		The Inca capital, called Cuzco, was located at a breathtaking altitude of 11,138 feet above sea level in the valley of the same name.
		Estimates of the size of Cuzco's population vary widely from 50,000 to 125,000.
	www.soltec.net /~ruskin/Meet_the_Incas/cuzco.htm (391 words)

	CUZCO.page
		The fame achieved by archeological Cuzco can be found beyond the Inca Age since the Cuzco Culture began about 1000 years before Christ when the Marcavalle Culture was in force.
		From there, Chamepata was originated, the history of this contemporary culture of Pucara in Puno is lost at the beginning of our Age until Wari conquered the zone including it in the Wari's Empire.
		In the past, Cuzco represented the center of the Inca Civilization.
	www.geocities.com /wanka_huancayo/CUZCO (168 words)

	MORE DETAILS ON TOUR TO CUZCO
		Please note that Cuzco is at the high altitude of 11,000 feet (Machu Pichu is about 3,000 ft. lower).
		Generally, it is easy to adapt to the high altitude, but if you have specific health concerns, please check with your doctor.
		Let us know if you are interested as soon as possible (tickets will be difficult to get as it is high season in Cuzco) as deposits wil be required to confirm reservations.
	www.wendyandbrianperu.com /Details_on_cuzco.html (297 words)

	Peru: Cuzco: Tours of Cuzco
		Nestled 11,000 feet high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, the former Incan capital of Cuzco is steeped in awe-inspiring ruins of a bygone era.
		The transformation of Cuzco from an Incan empire into a township is established by churches like the La Compania located in the central square of Plaza de Armas as well as various colonial buildings that were erected on the foundations of Incan palaces.
		More modern buildings in Cuzco include the Museo Inka, the Monasterio, a grand hotel that was once a seminary for monks, and intimate restaurants like Georky's, El Truco, Cafe Roma and the El Meson de los Espaderos, all of which are a short walk away from the Plaza de Armas.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/11-11-2000-1394.asp (481 words)

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