Interesting Bits about Cusco

Interesting Bits about Cusco

Yeah I know these pictures are kind of touristy....

Cusco is located in Huatanay River Valley, in the southeasts Andes of Peru at 11151,44 feet above the level sea. The foundations of modern Cusco were built by the Incas 5,000 years ago. The Incas designed Cusco, their capital in the shape of a puma, the walls Sacsayhuaman in the north representing the teeth. Cusco was the epicenter for the Inca Empire and contained roads leading through the Andes, Ecuador, through Bolivia and Chile. Spanish Conquistadors realized this, and during the battle of Sacsayhuaman most of the Inca monuments were leveled. Many of the Inca structures were so well engineered that the Spanish simply build on top of original structures.