Cuzco
Cuzco or Cusco, in the Southern Sierras, is a fascinating city that was the capital of the Inca Empire. Cuzco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of Peru's most visited cities as it is the largest and most comfortable city from which tourists can begin visits to Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley of the Incas, and other Inca sites in the region.
- City with 428,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 3,312 metres (10,866 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CUZ
- 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”“World heritage city”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coricancha and Estadio Garcilaso.
Cuzco
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Latitude
-13.5239° or 13° 31′ 26″ south
Longitude
-71.9786° or 71° 58′ 43″ west
UN/LOCODE
PE CUZ
Open location code
57RCF2GC+CG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cuzco” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cusco”
- Albanian: “Cusco”
- Amharic: “ኩስኮ”
- Arabic: “قوسقو”
- Arabic: “كوسكو”
- Arabic: “مدينة كوزكو”
- Aragonese: “Cuzco”
- Armenian: “Կուսկո”
- 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: “库斯科”
- Chinese: “庫斯科”
- Chinese: “科斯科”
- Chinese: “科斯科古城”
- Chuvash: “Куско”
- Corsican: “Cuscu”
- Croatian: “Cusco”
- Czech: “Cuzco”
- Danish: “Cusco”
- Dutch: “Cuzco”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوسكو”
- Esperanto: “Kusko”
- Estonian: “Cuzco”
- Extremaduran: “Cuscu”
- Fijian: “Cusco”
- Finnish: “Cusco”
- Finnish: “Cuzco”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Cusco”
- Hebrew: “קוסקו”
- Hindi: “कुज़्को”
- Hindi: “कुस्को”
- 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”
- Kazakh: “Куско”
- Kirghiz: “Куско”
- Korean: “쿠스코”
- Ladino: “Kusko”
- Latin: “Cuschum”
- Latin: “Cuscum”
- Latvian: “Kusko”
- Ligurian: “Cusco”
- Lithuanian: “Kuskas”
- Macedonian: “Куско”
- Malay: “Cusco”
- Maltese: “Cusco”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Cusco”
- Ossetian: “Куско”
- Panjabi: “ਕੁਸਕੋ”
- Persian: “کوزکو”
- Persian: “کوسکو”
- Piemontese: “Cusco”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Cusco”
- Polish: “Cuzco”
- Portuguese: “Cusco”
- Pushto: “کسکو”
- Pushto: “کوسکو”
- Quechua: “Qosqo”
- Quechua: “Qusqu”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “Cusco”
- Somali: “Cusco”
- 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: “Cusco”
- Swahili: “Mahali pa Urithi wa Dunia wa Cusco”
- Swahili: “Mji wa Cusco”
- Swedish: “Cusco”
- Tagalog: “Cusco”
- Tajik: “Куско”
- 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”
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