Similar words: nicolaus copernicus, ficus carica, amicus curiae, fuscous, muscovite, muscovado, u.s. congress, funduscopy. Meaning: n. a town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire.
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1. So Bauer shifted north, to the Cusco Valley.
2. The royal palaces of Cusco, the Inca capital, fell swiftly to the European conquerors, and a new Spanish colonial city rose on their ruins, burying or obliterating the Inca past.
3. And between 1150 and 1300, the Inca around Cusco began to capitalize on a major warming trend in the Andes.
4. But in the fertile, well-watered valley around Cusco, Inca farmers stood their ground.
5. 100m (13,450ft) Pampa Corral, near Cusco, Peru: The farmer Julio Hanneco grows 215 varieties of potatoes in his highland village.
6. Several other towns including Cusco, Lima, Huanuco and Trujillo also benefit from these medical missions.
7. Combing rugged mountain slopes near Cusco, they are discovering thousands of previously unknown sites, shedding new light on the origins of the Inca dynasty.
8. It was during the rainy season in 1533, an auspicious time for a coronation, and thousands of people were packed into the main plaza of Cusco to celebrate the arrival of their new teenage king.
9. On a sun-washed July afternoon, Brian Bauer, an archaeologist from the University of Illinois at Chicago, stands in the plaza of the sprawling Inca ceremonial site of Maukallacta, south of Cusco.
10. In the months that followed, the Spanish invaders seized the palaces of Cusco and the spacious country estates and took royal women as mistresses and wives.
11. Although the citadel is located only about 50 miles from Cusco, the Inca capital, it was never found and destroyed by the Spanish(Sentence dictionary), as were many other Inca sites.
12. A ride through the sacred valley of the Inca, from Cusco to Machu Picchu, on a Peruvian Paso is a haunting, spiritual experience.
13. Servants collected the precious bodies of the sacred kings and concealed them around Cusco, where they were worshipped in secret—and in defiance of Spanish priests.
14. They also want to encourage tourists to continue to visit Cusco.
15. Machu Picchu ("Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca city located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) altitude on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, near Cusco.
16. In all the surrounding valleys, local lords succumbed one by one, until there was only one mighty state and one capital, the sacred city of Cusco.
17. When Huayna Capac perished of a mysterious disease in Ecuador around 1527, retainers mummified his body and carried it back to Cusco.
18. Now with the Bolivian's immigration, Ekeko is able to be found in high mountain area such as Cusco in Peru and the norther part of Argentina such as Jujuy province.
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