Cuzco
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- Names
Cuzco
Cusco
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Often called the "Archaeological Capital of South America"; taken by Spanish under Pizarro 1533; famous for ruins of Inca temples, fortresses, walls & palaces; suffered great damage during earthquake in 1950.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Times Atlas of the World (1985); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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