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CUZCO: THE HISTORICAL AND
CITY OF PERU
MONUMENTAL
selves 'Mld ·make implorations, both of the city and of Muchch a.
This was repeated 0111 leaving the city. It is a fact that even at
this date the visitor will <>bserve Incas carrying a s.tone O'Il their
shoulders when fir·st viewing as well as on enterinig the city ilhe
fil'st time. An unalierable tradition is to the effect that at the
first distant si·ght of Cuzeo from Apacheta (heights rnr valley);
bhe discoverer exclúmed: "Ccoseco h 'atun llaiecta; napaccuquin "·
(Cuzico, Grall'd eouutry, I Salute Thee!): As a reminisce:n:ce of
this ancient practice it is even today the inv.a,riaible and reverred
f the native on approaehiug Cuzco to reverent1y give
from the hei.ghts smroundin.g the city, irreSipecitive of
maiy eome from, reeitjng an oratrcxn, crossi11g himself rund
blessi~g the Image of the Virgin in the Cathedral said to haive
been donated by Cados V.
At the time of t r ·va f the Spaniards the Ineaic Empire
had, aooordiug to a the:h ic r port'S
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a pop1'latíon of ,ten miUions.
Cuzeo, the Caipital, had- 300,000 a;l'though the rucfual ce.nsus ac–
cording to Pedro Sancho ho airrived with F~amcisco Pizarro,
taking into consid :a lon t ouú}aiy¡ng di&tricts of from one to
two Ieagues of the cíty, eould have been easiTy estimaited at
100,000. He also 'lllclds tñat tñe city was so llllrge and beautiful
thart; it would have been ·of much importance e-verr in· his own
country, Spain. In Caja.marca the Spa.niard'S were ilrrformed by
an Indfan that the city laid witñin a d> tñiat <plaice one
day by f-0ot. EigJit Spa,niards who, witJi de Castro and
Hernando Soto, arrived at Cuzco in 1533 st ízarao tliat' tfi.e
p lation wais so large tñait during the ei:g·ñt days spent there
tl could scarceJy estímate it.
lin additfon to the city proper •and includin,g its immed'i.wte·
sUJbut1b Cwzco extended to tJhe pJaíns auif the near mmmtains, ll!n
area 1su<f'dicien.t for a dense ·population. The hj.gher paiit of Cuzco•
was called H 'an•an Ccoscioo, and the part frontin.g Ehrin Ceo'SJCCO•
Ancient Suburbs : - The sacred dty, wiith iits temples, palaces
a.n.d institution.s, wa.s divid-ed into fourteen parta~ man.y of w.hicb.
u.