Cuzco

an inland city of Peru, capital of a department of same name and formerly capital of the empire of the Incas, about 400 miles E. S. E. of Lima. According to tradition, this town was founded in 1043 by Manco Capac, the first Inca of Peru. The srandeur and magnificence of the edifices, of its fortre , and of the Temple of the Sun, struck the Spaniards with astonishment in 1534, when the city was taken by Francis Pizarro, On the hill toward the north are yet seen the ruins of a fortre built by the Incas, and which has a communication, by means of subterranean pase sages, with three forts built in the walls of Cuzco. All the descendants of the Incas resided in a particular quarter of the city.