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The House of the Maldonado

Family

The houses of the Conqueror don Diego

Maldonado, known as the "Rich Man" were lo–

cated on the site of the old Inca Palace, H1atucan–

_cha; they overlooked the street of Santa Catalina,

and in the same street was a house belonging to

Francisco H·ernandez Girón.

Streets and Parks.

The nomenclature of the streets of Cuzco is

almost alw1ays formed by Inca words and those

· o

colonial origin. Amo g t)le p

~nci

pal ones may

be mentioned the followi g :-It wou d be well to

in mind

at t e k}echu or nea names are

based on events , s well as on the configuration

and topography of the ground, rivers, springs,

promontories of rock, etc. The Incas . na.med

their roads and ·streets by those signs which

symbolized the contours of nature. So there are

names which designate altitude (pata)-COL–

l{AMPATA, CANTUPATA, KISHUARPATA, CHI–

HUNPATA, etc. There are names derived from

lhe configuration of the land-MUNAYSENCA.

Neighborhoods and roads are som·etimes named

for the bridges over the rivulets which flow

through the c'ity-CHOQUECIIACA, CHAKIL-

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