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IDS'rORICAL

AND

CITY 'oF PERU

:MONUMENTAL

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crooked tree (°Chac.haicomo) from which o riginated

the name

Chacha CuDJJáyocc, or centennary tree, said to have been planted

by

Atabuallpa, (alithough

it

is not provoed that the Inca of Quito

had ever been in Cuzicio).

all'd sur·

or farma.

The facade of th.e temple was ·built in the 17th Centwry during

the Bishopric of S&ñor Mollinedo i Angulo.

Th'El steeple to the

lett wa.s erected in the time of Bishop Eizagu.i.rre; the one to the

right in 1709, the time of Bis.hop B airtolomé de las Heras.

In the near vicinity of San Sebastián (where there are located

some salt mines) there took place in 1538 tbe "Batana de Salinas"

between the forces of Alm!l!gro and those of Pizarro, the latter

merution d being victor1o'lls.

It

is

said that the

India.ns

with

S'tupification and woJ11doer viewed th•e battle between the whites

from the nearby hil1s.

The .bodies of the dea.d soldiers were

interr ed in the cemetery of

an Lázaro, the exact loca tion of which.

it is impossi!ble to determine today.

The native Indians of San Sebastián &re po tery workers, an

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