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Cuzco

[ koos-koh; Spanish koos-kaw ]

noun

  1. a city in S Peru: ancient Inca ruins.


Cuzco

/ ˈ°ì³Ü²õ°ì´Ç /

noun

  1. a city in S central Peru: former capital of the Inca Empire, with extensive Inca remains; university (1692). Pop: 307 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Tickets had previously been sold through the office of culture in Cuzco, which is controlled by the regional government.

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She is expected to visit several landmark sites, including Cuzco, the Andean city that was the capital of the Inca Empire between the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Later on, six drawings from 1956 indicate an awed response to the smooth fronts, curved corners and imaginative shapes of the magnificent dry stone walls of Sacsayhuamán, the Inca citadel near Cuzco, Peru.

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Although he was born in Lima, Espinoza Grajeda spent several years in the ancient “imperial city†of Cuzco, Peru, which also is the city of origin of all his aforementioned relatives.

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Vicuña told me she had imagined her own hand as Cuzco, the spiritual center of the ceque system.

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