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Cuzco

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Cuz·co  (kzk, ks-) also Cus·co (ks-)
A city of southern Peru in the Andes east-southeast of Lima. Founded according to legend by Manco Capac around the 12th century, it became the center of the vast Inca empire and was rebuilt by the Spanish after its plunder by Francisco Pizarro in 1533. Population: 313,000.
Cuzco (Spanish) [ˈkuθko], Cusco
n
(Placename) a city in S central Peru: former capital of the Inca Empire, with extensive Inca remains; university (1692). Pop.: 278 590 (1998 est.)
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Noun1.CuzcoCuzco - a town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire
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He had the mysterious juruparis of the Rio Negro Indians, that women are not allowed to look at and that even youths may not see till they have been subjected to fasting and scourging, and the earthen jars of the Peruvians that have the shrill cries of birds, and flutes of human bones such as Alfonso de Ovalle heard in Chile, and the sonorous green jaspers that are found near Cuzco and give forth a note of singular sweetness.
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