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.nswith
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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