Cuzco

American  

[koos-koh, koos-kaw] / ˈkus koʊ, ˈkus kɔ /

Also Cusco

noun

1. a city in S Peru: ancient Inca ruins.

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Cuzco British  

/ ˈkusko /

noun

1. a city in S central Peru: former capital of the Inca Empire, with extensive Inca remains; university (1692). Pop: 307 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Tickets had previously been sold through the office of culture in Cuzco, which is controlled by the regional government.

From New York Times

She is expected to visit several landmark sites, including Cuzco, the Andean city that was the capital of the Inca Empire between the 15th and 16th centuries.

From Washington Times

Later on, six drawings from 1956 indicate an awed response to the smooth fronts, curved corners and imaginative shapes of the magnificent dry stone walls of Sacsayhuamán, the Inca citadel near Cuzco, Peru.

From New York Times

Although he was born in Lima, Espinoza Grajeda spent several years in the ancient “imperial city” of Cuzco, Peru, which also is the city of origin of all his aforementioned relatives.

From Los Angeles Times

But she understood her own images as inheritors of the “Cuzco School,” 17th-century Indigenous painters who subverted Christian iconography under Spanish colonial rule.

From New York Times