🏛️ City of Cuzco

Peru · Americas · Cultural · 13.52°S, 71.98°W

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City of Cuzco
The Historic Centre of Cusco, is the historic city centre of the Peruvian city of Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire. It consists of two areas: the first is the Monumental Zone established by the Peruvian government in 1972, and the second one—contained within the first one—is the World Heritage Site established by UNESCO in 1983 under the name of City of Cuzco, where a selected number of buildings are marked with the organisation's blue-and-white shield since 2021.

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Quick facts

CountryPeru
Continent / regionAmericas
List type🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)13.52°S, 71.98°W · view on map

City of Cuzco is a cultural World Heritage site in Peru, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why City of Cuzco was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in Peru

Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu · City of Cusco · Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca · Historic Centre of Lima · Chan Chan · Chavín · Huascarán National Park · Manú National Park · Qhapaq Ñan · Historic Centre of Arequipa · Sacred City of Caral-Supe · Río Abiseo National Park · Río Abiseo National Park · Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa · Manú National Park · Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex.

Coordinates are an approximate site centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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