Cumbres Andinas Tours Perú

Tahuantinsuyo. The beauty of their landscapes, their archaeological remains, and the picturesque traditions conserved by their inhabitants, they are a tourist great attraction for the tourists. 
Location: The department of Cusco is located in the oriental region of Peru, crossing for the mountain ranges Oriental and Central of Andes.

Limits: By the north, Ucayali and Junín; for the east Mother of God and Puno; for south Puno and Arequipa; and for the west, Apurimac and Ayacucho.

Surface: 72,104 square kilometers.

Population: 1'103 ,566 inhabitants.

Capital: The city of Cusco, located in the valley of the river Huatanay, to 3,360 meters of altitude.

Counties: (13) Acomayo, Elk, Traces, Gray-headed, Canchis, Chumbivilca, Cusco, to Prick with thorns, The Convention, Paruro, Paucartambo, Quispicancha and Urubamba.

Agricultural Production: In the low valleys and high Forest: Fruit-bearing diverse, tea, coffee, cocoa, cane of sugar and chestnut trees of Brazil. In the valleys interandinos: Corn, potato, wheat, barley, beans, beans, quinua, kiwicha, cañigua, olluco, fruit-bearing, medic and products of bread to take.

Cattle Production: Livestock bovine milkman, ovino, swinish and auquénidos (German nickel, calls and vicuña) cattle raising.

Fishing production: Trout, pejerrey, paiche, zúngaro, gamitana and boquichico.

Product Internal B.: 3,591 million new suns (1996).

Distances: 

Cusco to Lima: 1153 kms.
Cusco to Ayacucho: 597 kms.
Cusco to Abancay: 198 kms.
Cusco to Arequipa: 623 kms.
Cusco to Puno: 389 kms.

IT POINTS OUT HISTORICAL
Although the legendary valley of Huantanay was inhabited centuries before the arrival of the Inca, for the not very well-known culture Chanapa, its historical origin is indissolubly together to the legend of the foundation of the Empire of Tawantinsuyo.

Between the soglos XI and XII, several cup tribes and Quechua language, coming from the plateau of the lake Titicaca, settled in the district founding the city of Cusco (Qosqo). It counts the legend that of the waters of the lake Titicaca Handless Cápac came out and Ocllo Suckles, children of the god Sun, to be founded, in the hill Huanacaure, the Andean great state of the four his.

Hardly one century before the coming of the Spaniards, the Inca (the rulers of the empire called this way themselves) began an aglow expansion that embraced from the south of Colombia until the north of Chile and the northwest of Argentina: the biggest empire in the Western Hemisphere. Cusco was the center of cultural diffusion, mainly artistic, more important of South America. The wealth goldsmith, metalúrgica, social, nun, urban and intellectual subdued the conquering ambitious persons.

After eliminating in Cajamarca to Atahualpa, Pizarro entered Cusco, in 1553, supported by local numerous ethnoses. It begins this way a cultural powerful miscegenation. In 1536 the bloody rebellion of Inca Cripple razed the city. The walls Incan survivors were used as foundation of colonial, specially religious future constructions. After Lima, it was the most powerful center in the Spanish dominance in America. The square of weapons of Cusco witnessed in 1780 Túpac Amaru execution II, the first great precursor of the American independence. Contemporary Cusco, a savage's product but creative miscegenation, breathe history and it is obligatory destination for the national tourism and foreigner.

 
TOURISM
TOURIST PLACES
      City of Cusco, Machu Picchu, Sacsaywamán

PARTIES
      Inti Raymi, Virgin of Carmen