Cusco
Historic city of Peru, capital of the Department of Cusco
Also known as World heritage city · Rome of America · Imperial city of Cusco · Empire city of Cusco · Cultural heritage city of Peru · Capital of the Inca empire
- Country
- Peru
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- Peru
- Located in
- Population
- 428,450(2017)
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Sources- 1.Stated in 2017 Peru Censusinei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1539/libro.pdfRetrieved 2018-11-23
- , 348,935(2007)
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Sources- 1.Stated in 2007 Peru Censusinei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1539/libro.pdfRetrieved 2018-11-23
- 428,450(2017)
- Area
- 385 km²
- , 142.48 ha
- , 284.93 ha
- Elevation
- 3,399 m
- Head of government
- Luis Pantoja Calvo(since 2023)
- Founded
- March 23, 1534
- , 13th century
- Postal code
- 08000
Overview
All data
130 statements · 32% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Twinned administrative body
- La Paz(since 1984)
- Samarkand(since 1986)
- Athens(since 1991)
- Mexico City(since 1987)
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- Xi'an(since 1998)
- Rio de Janeiro(since 2003)
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Sources- 1.aatccusco.com/ciudades_hermanas.php
- 2.aplicnt.camara.rj.gov.br/APL/Legislativos/contlei.nsf/50ad008247b8f030032579ea0073d588/384eefd01ec0b0db032576ac0072e9d8?OpenDocument
- 3.aplicnt.camara.rj.gov.br/APL/Legislativos/contlei.nsf/50ad008247b8f030032579ea0073d588/3f4147a57ed8aa3483257e8800663664?OpenDocument
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- Capital of
- Inca Empire(0013–1536)
- Viceroyalty of Peru(1821–1824)
- Cusco Department
- Cusco Province
- Cusco District
- Native label
- Qusqu
- Heritage designation
- World Heritage Site(since 1983) official name: Ciudad del Cusco, City of Cuzco · world heritage criteria: (iii), (iv)
On other databases
62 identifiers linking Cusco across the web's reference databases
- ArchINFORM location ID1392
- BBC Things ID42481547-d9cb-48fe-b68b-5d18abc39320
- BHCL UUID3e01cbe5-d2d0-43a1-a5f3-e3bf3aa8a260
- Biblioteca Nacional de México ID000027839
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11971901c
- Biblissima authority IDQ30535
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10218296
- CERL Thesaurus IDcnl00020337
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Cuzco
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDcuzco
- Facebook location ID111977915487788
- FactGrid item IDQ83917
- FAST ID1211171
- Freebase ID/m/0jld3
- GeoNames ID3941584
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7005819
- GND ID4090652-8
- GNS Unique Feature ID-345275
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDcusco-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0021158
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDCuzco
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2123458
- Grove Art Online IDT020773
- Harper's tagcuzco-peru
- Hikr waypoint ID73929
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2788401
- IdRef ID027741001
- Interlingual Index IDi83879
- J9U entity ID987007566753805171
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn80162967
- Museum of Modern Art work ID100595
- Museum-digital place ID21545
- MusicBrainz area IDfc5f32b9-99be-4e15-bc31-958e14088d15
- National Library of Brazil ID000065145
- National Library of Chile ID000005318
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001147002
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX452177
- NL CR AUT IDge175787
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1588271
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3888533
- OpenStreetMap relation ID8524735
- OpenWeatherMap city ID3941584
- PACTOLS thesaurus IDpcrtU63xDlIb6K
- Quora topic IDCusco-Peru
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)cusco
- RKD thesaurus ID47760
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID1950
- SNARC IDQ1883
- TasteAtlas IDcusco
- Treccani IDcuzco
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana IDcuzco
- UN/LOCODEPECUZ
- Vatican Library VcBA ID497/3263
- VIAF cluster ID153610071
- Vikidia article IDes:Cusco
- Wellcome Collection concept IDxydvamx4
- Who's on First ID421186885
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09002110-n
- World History Encyclopedia IDCuzco
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJqqBCFF3KMT8D9MxjkMT3
- Yale LUX IDplace/2dddecfc-8d8d-4806-b6ec-dfa0b1aec463
- YSO ID196764