Where Is The Town.docx

WHERE IS THE TOWN? HOW MANY INHABITANTES DOES IT HAVE Cusco is located in the central and southern area of Peru. It occupies great part of the great orographic knot of Vilcanota. Its name in Quechua means "Navel" or figuratively, "center" because from the city of Cusco that was the capital of the Inca empire or Tahuantisuyo a vast network of roads (Inca Trail) that went to the four of them or regions , which formed the 4 parts of the universe in the Andean cosmovision

ALSO IS a city of multiple contrasts between the Andean culture and the modern Western world. It is these contrasts that give Cusco its particular beauty With a CURRENT population 457 481 inhabitants

Climate: is mild, dry and sunny in the day and cold at night. The precipitations occur in December and are presented with the phenomenon of the child Gastronomía

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The city of Cusco has a wide range of typical dishes, a great heritage from their ancestors. As a stuffed rocoto. Historia ; It was founded on March 23, 1533, by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro, thus converting the city of Cuzco into a mestizo and colonial city. In 1911, the American explorer, Hiram Bingham discovered the Archaeological Sanctuary of Macchu Picchu. Due to the impressive beauty of its archaeological monuments, cusco has been, deservedly, declared as the "Archaeological Capital of South America", in an Americanist congress held in Argentina, in the year of 1993. And in 1993, the state Peruvian through the congress declares the city of Cusco as the "Historical Capital of Peru".