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Walking around Cusco at night the city center is surrounded by thousands of little lights from the nearby homes in the mountains.
Cusco was the capital of Tahuantinsuyu (Inca Empire). The city was planned to be shaped like a puma.
According to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cusco from a sleepy city-state into the vast empire of Tahuantinsuyu. But archaeological evidence points to a slower, more organic growth of the city beginning before Pachacuti. There was however a city plan, and two rivers were channeled around the city. |
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