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Cusco

Cusco

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A city in southern Peru in the Andes that is the former capital of the Inca Empire
  • proper noun
  • /ˈkuːskoʊ/
: Cusco
  • In August this year, I traveled through Peru and spent some time in Cusco.
  • Inca capital of Cusco
  • Cusco, Peru
  • plaza of Cusco

And now that's the door of the palace of the Cardinal of Cusco, city of the church.

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Examples

  • The Inca Temple of the Sun in Cusco.

  • My advice: spend at least three days in Cusco to acclimatize before the trek.

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  • This was a drunken night in Cusco.

  • Her name was Margarita, and she lived a few hours north of Cusco.

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  • And then we're linking them with Cusco and with Lima.

  • Penn loved working and shot a lot and he was on a photo shoot down in Cusco, which is in Peru.

  • Walking sticks are very handy, and you can buy them very cheaply in Cusco or Ollantaytambo.

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  • We flew to Cusco, then took a shuttle to a train station from which we traveled to Aguas Calientes.

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  • We traveled to Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, and Lake Titikaka.

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  • After that, the history of Cusco is a story of colonization.

Synonyms

Cuzco
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A city in the Andes in southern Peru that was once the capital of the Inca Empire

has identical meaning but uses a different spelling

Surface Forms

Cusco main

Etymology

Cusco comes from the Quechua word Qosqo, also written Qusqu, which means 'navel' or 'centre'. The Inca called it the 'navel' of their world because it was their capital, so Cusco became known as the heart of the Inca Empire.