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Cusco

THE BEST TRAVEL TO CUSCO


Cusco is a department of Peru located in the southeast of the country. It occupies an area of ​​over 71.9 thousand square kilometers comprising mostly mountainous areas, the low lands covered by the Amazon rainforest.
Haucaypata, Huacaypata, Plaza de Armas del Cusco
This region is fully influenced by the early Andean civilizations such as  Huari and Tiahuanaco. It is also the birthplace of the Inca Empire and place of the Inca's resistance in Vilcabamba after the conquest of Peru. It is in this department, at the hacienda Marcahuasi (Mollepata), where in the sixteenth century the first vines grown in the Americas and the first pisco is produced.
Its main agricultural resources are corn, barley, quinoa, tea and coffee.


TOURIST ATTRACTIONS


In the capital the most remarkable are the main square or Huacaypata, the Cathedral of Cuzco (in which the Lord of the Earthquakes is stored, Lord of Earthquakes, Lord of Tremors, Señor de los Temblores, Patron Jurado del CuscoPatron Saint of Cuzco), the Casa de los Cuatro Bustos, the Convent of Santo Domingo (built on the Coricancha or Temple of the Sun), the birthplace of Garcilaso de la Vega (now the Regional Historical Museum) and the Barrio de San Blas. La Merced Church, which has a gold monstrance over one meter high, which has 600 pearls  and  1528 diamonds and is considered one of the most famous of the world's goldsmith. It is in this church  where the remains of the old Diego de Almagro and  Diego de Almagro the young are found. We also find museums, the Museum of Popular Art and the Museum of Pre-Columbian Art.

Around town, the Temple of Sacsayhuaman stands impressive as the protector of the great ancient city of Cuzco further, the Kenko Amphitheater, the fortress of Pucca Pucara and Tambomachay and then, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas , Pisac and impressive terraces, Moray, Yucay, Urubamba, Chinchero, Ollantaytambo, where we found the Fortress of Ollantaytambo which is the beginning of the Qhapaq Nan (Inca Trail). Finally, in the hills, the amazing Machu Picchu, a World Heritage Site and one of the New Wonders of the World. Manu National Park, one of the richest nature reserve in the world also the second largest glacier system in the tropical Andes, the Cordillera of Vilcanota where we can find the Ausangate.

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