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CUZCO: -

THE

HISTO:&ICAL

AND

CITY OF PERU

MONUMENTAL

poinoted out one rfJFressnrting San Pedro N-0lasco carried by two

a.rugel~.

THE PLAZA OF CUZCO. -

'Dhe main Plaza is the

Incaic

origlnal e.alled in the Imperial vocalbulary Huaiccai Pata (Weeping

Lan-e), probably derived frOllII

the tradiitional tale that in that

locality sentences of criime etc. were pronounced. Hs contour i3

today practi1cally the same, with the exceptions of the frontings

of the Colonial buildingis.

is fa.roed for the different kinds of

soil used in iits construction ca.rried from aJl conquered regions by

the Incas, sigmi.fying thereby a sens-e of harmo111y and solidity be–

tw.een the dep-endencies anid the metropolis. Th-e formation of the

Plaza is also attributed

to a dep0-5it of past floods,

as severa]

indieatiorns 11ave been found

the sul;>- oil of h.c Cathedral.

Near

the Phza d Huacca¡i :Pata will be found

the principal

palaces of the

lin

f9llows:

Quishuaraancha ( 0-plar Park), to tho ea t · the

pa.lac~

of Hui-

ra-Mocha. Part

oceu-p\ed by the

athedral.

Ccasana, (

ozen

to the north of the Plaza, whcre en–

tranice still exi ts. Having be n the rpala.c e of the In ca Pacaheúteee,

it was after tihe Conqµ e'St

that of Francisco Pizarro. At the en–

tran<ie there formerly existed a sort of fortified tower, in whfoh

the Spainiards rpla:ced their prisoners ---: amonig them the Inca

M~w

co II, son of Huaina Keápacc, as well as Gonzalo and Hernan<lo

Pizai:ro, at the beginnin,g of the civil wars of the Conquistadores.

Ocora-Ccora, (Pastures).

Palace of Inca Rocea, occu.pied by

Gonzalo Piza.rro, the upper and a·djoinin1g ipTOport:í, was put to salt

land following his executfon in 1548.

Amaru-Oawcha, (Serrpen t

Spot), paJ.ace of Huaina

Kccá.pac~,

to the south of the Plaza, occ

upied

today •by the

Unive

rsity aud

the CoIIl{Pañia. At its entra.nea

w.as

a large pond or

la.Re

'i'o thr

right of this palace and to th

e :So

uth of <the Cathe

dral,

a short

distanoo, were the waUs of Aclla Huasis. The preseut

stroot is

callad Triunfo.

H'.Atun Ca>ncha, (Grand Park), pal.ace of . the

in~a

Yuipanqui>

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