Cusco, Peru

Cusco is a city in southeastern Peru near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th century until the 16th-century Spanish conquest. Since 1976, the preferred local spelling of the city has been Cusco, to reflect current pronunciation in Spanish and Quechua. Since 1990, local authorities adopted Qosqo...