Cuzco Department
Cusco Province
Cusco District

Cuzco

Cuzco or Cusco, in the , is a fascinating city that was the capital of the Inca Empire. Cuzco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of 's most visited cities as it is the largest and most comfortable city from which tourists can begin visits to , the , and other Inca sites in the region.
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  • Type: City with 428,000 residents
  • Description: historic city of Peru, capital of the Department of Cusco
  • Also known as: “Capital ​​of the Inca empire”, “City of Cusco”, “City of Cuzco”, “Cultural heritage city of Peru”, “Cusco”, “Cusco World Heritage Site”, “Cuzco World Heritage Site”, “Empire city of Cusco”, “Empire city of Cuzco”, “Imperial city of Cusco”, “Imperial city of Cuzco”, “Imperial City of the Cusco”, “Imperial City of the Cuzco”, “Qosqo”, “Qusqu”, “Rome of America”, “Rome of the Americas”, and “World heritage city”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Coricancha and Sacsayhuamán.

Museum
Photo: Xauxa, CC BY 2.5.
The was the most important temple in the Inca Empire, and was described by early Spanish colonialists. It is located in Cusco, Peru, which was the capital of the empire.

Nature reserve
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or Saksaywaman is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire. The site is at an altitude of 3,701 metres.

Stadium
Photo: Nta3392, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, commonly known as , is Cusco's principal and the home venue of the local football teams Cienciano, Deportivo Garcilaso and Cusco FC, all of which play in the Peruvian Primera División.

Cuzco

Latitude
-13.5239° or 13° 31′ 26″ south
Longitude
-71.9786° or 71° 58′ 43″ west
Population
428,000
Elevation
3,312 metres (10,866 feet)
IATA airport code
CUZ
United Nations Location Code
PE CUZ
Open location code
57RCF2GC+CG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 59115290
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3941584
Wiki­data ID
Q5582862
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cuzco” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cusco”
  • Albanian: “Cusco”
  • Arabic: “قوسقو”
  • Arabic: “كوسكو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كوزكو”
  • Aragonese: “Cuzco”
  • Armenian: “Կուսկո”
  • Asturian: “Cusco”
  • Asturian: “Cuzco”
  • Aymara: “Qusqu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kusko”
  • Bambara: “Kusko”
  • Basque: “Cusco”
  • Belarusian: “Куска”
  • Bengali: “কুজকো, পেরু”
  • Bengali: “কুজকো”
  • Bengali: “কুসকো”
  • Bengali: “কুস্কো”
  • Bengali: “কোস্কো”
  • Breton: “Qusqu”
  • Bulgarian: “Куско”
  • Burmese: “ကူဇကိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Cusco”
  • Catalan: “Patrimoni Mundial de Cusco”
  • Cebuano: “Cusco”
  • Chinese: “哥斯哥”
  • Chinese: “库斯科”
  • Chinese: “庫斯科”
  • Chinese: “科斯科”
  • Chinese: “科斯科古城”
  • Chuvash: “Куско”
  • Corsican: “Cuscu”
  • Croatian: “Cusco”
  • Czech: “Cusco”
  • Czech: “Cuzco”
  • Danish: “Cusco”
  • Dutch: “Cusco”
  • Dutch: “Cuzco”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوسكو”
  • Esperanto: “Kusko”
  • Estonian: “Cuzco”
  • Extremaduran: “Cuscu”
  • Fijian: “Cusco”
  • Finnish: “Cusco”
  • Finnish: “Cuzco”
  • French: “Cusco”
  • French: “Cuzco”
  • French: “Site du patrimoine mondial de Cuzco”
  • French: “Ville de Cuzco”
  • Galician: “Cuzco”
  • Georgian: “კუსკო”
  • German: “Cusco”
  • German: “Cuzco”
  • Greek: “Κούζκο”
  • Greek: “Κούσκο”
  • Guarani: “Cusco”
  • Guarani: “Kusuko”
  • Gujarati: “કુસ્કો”
  • Hebrew: “קוסקו”
  • Hindi: “कुज़्को”
  • Hungarian: “Cuzco”
  • Icelandic: “Cuzco”
  • Ido: “Cuzco”
  • Indonesian: “Cusco”
  • Indonesian: “Cuzco”
  • Interlingua: “Cusco”
  • Interlingue: “Cusco”
  • Irish: “Cusco”
  • Italian: “Cusco”
  • Italian: “Cuzco”
  • Japanese: “クスコ”
  • Japanese: “クスコ市街”
  • Javanese: “Cusco”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cusco”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಸ್ಕೊ”
  • Korean: “쿠스코”
  • Ladino: “Kusko”
  • Latin: “Cuschum”
  • Latin: “Cuscum”
  • Latvian: “Kusko”
  • Ligurian: “Cusco”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuskas”
  • Macedonian: “Куско”
  • Malay: “Cusco”
  • Maltese: “Cusco”
  • Maltese: “Cuzco”
  • Marathi: “कुस्को”
  • Moksha: “Куска”
  • Nauru: “Cuzco”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cusco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cuzco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cuzco”
  • Norwegian: “Cuzco”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cusco”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cosco”
  • Ossetian: “Куско”
  • Persian: “کوزکو”
  • Persian: “کوسکو”
  • Piemontese: “Cusco”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Cusco”
  • Polish: “Cusco”
  • Polish: “Cuzco”
  • Portuguese: “Cusco”
  • Portuguese: “Cuzco”
  • Pushto: “کوسکو”
  • Quechua: “Qosqo”
  • Quechua: “Qusqu”
  • Romanian: “Cusco”
  • Romanian: “Cuzco”
  • Russian: “Город Куско”
  • Russian: “Куско”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Cusco”
  • Scots: “Cusco”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Qusqu”
  • Serbian: “Куско”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cusco”
  • Sinhala: “කුස්කෝ, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “කුස්කෝ”
  • Slovak: “Cusco”
  • Slovak: “Cuzco”
  • Slovenian: “Cusco”
  • Slovenian: “Cuzco”
  • Spanish: “Capital del Imperio incaico”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Cuzco”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Cusco”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Cuzco”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad imperial del Cusco”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad imperial del Cuzco”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad patrimonio cultural de Perú”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Patrimonio cultural del Perú”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Patrimonio mundial de la humanidad”
  • Spanish: “Cusco”
  • Spanish: “Cuzco”
  • Spanish: “Patrimonio Mundial de Cusco”
  • Spanish: “Qosqo”
  • Spanish: “Qusqu”
  • Spanish: “Roma de América”
  • Swahili: “Mahali pa Urithi wa Dunia wa Cusco”
  • Swahili: “Mji wa Cusco”
  • Swedish: “Cusco”
  • Tagalog: “Cusco”
  • Tamil: “குசுக்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Куско”
  • Telugu: “కుస్కో”
  • Thai: “กุสโก”
  • Turkish: “Cusco”
  • Ukrainian: “Куско”
  • Urdu: “کوزکو”
  • Uzbek: “Kusko”
  • Venetian: “Cusco”
  • Vietnamese: “Cuzco”
  • Volapük: “Cusco”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cusco”
  • Welsh: “Cuzco”
  • Western Armenian: “Քուսքօ”
  • Wu Chinese: “库斯科”
  • Yakut: “Куско”
  • Yiddish: “קוסקא”
  • Yoruba: “Cusco”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥斯哥”
  • “Cusco”
  • “Cuzco”

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