tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59733567218387668192011-04-21T11:02:03.723-07:00cuscomaravillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12228866132308875472noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973356721838766819.post-61870017675880259112008-11-21T11:42:00.000-08:002008-11-21T11:50:53.229-08:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qr0PxecX9Fc/SScP8oobPsI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YQONRWcBU5Q/s1600-h/FkNAWF442677-02.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271199423233998530" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qr0PxecX9Fc/SScP8oobPsI/AAAAAAAAAAM/YQONRWcBU5Q/s320/FkNAWF442677-02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/"><span style="font-size:180%;">Cusco</span></a> (also spelled Cuzco, and in the local <a title="Quechua" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Quechua</a> language as Qusqu IPA: a city in southeastern <a title="Peru" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Peru</a>, near the <a title="Urubamba Valley" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Urubamba Valley</a> (<a title="Sacred Valley" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Sacred Valley</a>) of the <a title="Andes" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Andes</a> mountain range. It is the capital of the <a title="Cusco Region" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Cusco Region</a> as well as the <a title="Cusco Province" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Cusco Province</a>. The city has a population of 348,935 which is triple the figure of 20 years ago. Located on the eastern end of the Knot of <a href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/"><span style="font-size:180%;">Cusco</span></a>, its altitude is around 3,300 m (10,800 ft). Cusco is the historic capital of the <a title="Inca Empire" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Inca Empire</a></div><br /><div>Inca history<br />See also: <a title="Kingdom of Cusco" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Kingdom of Cusco</a> and <a title="Inca Empire" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Inca Empire</a><br />Cusco was the capital of the <a title="Inca Empire" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Inca Empire</a> (1200s-1532). Many believe that the city was planned to be shaped like a <a title="Puma" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">puma</a>. The city had two sectors: the urin and hanan, which were further divided to each encompass two of the four provinces, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Chinchasuyu" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Chinchasuyu</a> (NW), (NE), <a class="mw-redirect" title="Qontisuyu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qontisuyu">Qontisuyu</a> (SW) and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Collasuyu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collasuyu">Collasuyu</a> (SE). A road led from each of these quarters to the corresponding quarter of the empire. Each local leader was required to build a house in the city and live part of the year in Cusco, but only in the quarter of Cusco that corresponded to the quarter of the empire in which he had territory. After <a title="Pachacuti" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Pachacuti</a>, when an <a title="Sapa Inca" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Inca</a> died his title went to one son and his property was given to a corporation controlled by his other relatives (a process called split inheritance), so each title holder had to build a new house and add new lands to the empire, in order to own the land his family needed to maintain after his death.<br />According to Inca legend, the city was built by <a title="Sapa Inca" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Sapa Inca</a> <a title="Pachacuti" href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">Pachacuti</a>, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cusco from a sleepy city-state into the vast empire of Tahuantinsuyu. But archaeological evidence points to a slower, more organic growth of the city beginning before Pachacuti. There was however a city plan, and two rivers were channeled around the city. Archaeologists such as lary have suggested this city plan was replicated at other sites throughtout the empire.</div><br /><div><a href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/"><span style="font-size:180%;">CUSCO</span></a><br />The city fell to the sphere of Huáscar in the division of the empire after the death of Huayna</div><br /><div>in 1527. <a href="http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/">http://www.cuscomaravilla.com/</a></div><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5973356721838766819-6187001767588025911?l=cuscomaravilla2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cuscomaravillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12228866132308875472noreply@blogger.com0