Cusco, often spelled Cuzco, is a city in Southeastern Peru near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range.
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11 Facts About Cusco
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In 1983, Cusco was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO with the title "City of Cuzco".
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Cusco returned and told Ayar Manco that from then on he was to be named Manco Capac.
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Carbon-14 dating of Saksaywaman, the walled complex outside Cusco, established that Killke constructed the fortress about 1100 CE.
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How Cusco was specifically built, or how its large stones were quarried and transported to the site remain undetermined.
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Each local leader was required to build a house in the city and live part of the year in Cusco, restricted to the quarter that corresponded to the quarter in which he held territory.
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Cusco supported construction of the Dominican Order monastery on the ruins of the Corichanca, House of the Sun, and a convent at the former site of the House of the Virgins of the Sun.
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Cusco eventually retreated to Vilcabamba, the capital of the newly established small Neo-Inca State.
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Cusco was the center for the Spanish colonization and spread of Christianity in the Andean world.
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Cusco was found in 2006 to be the spot on Earth with the highest average ultraviolet light level.
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The cathedral is known for a Cusco School painting of the Last Supper depicting Jesus and the twelve apostles feasting on guinea pig, a traditional Andean delicacy.
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