¿Como Es Cuzco, Peru?
(What Is Cuzco, Peru Like?)
When you hear of a place with less than 1% born again believers, you might immediately think of the 10/40 window. But there are still many areas in South America relatively unreached by the gospel of Jesus Christ. Cuzco, Peru is one of these places. While the 300,000 inhabitants of the city of Cuzco are primarily Spanish-speaking, it acts as a hub or center point for the region's almost 2million Quechua people. For many of these, Quechua is their only or, at least, primary language. Cuzco is a high place in every sense, where every form of paganism, witchcraft and idolatry are rampant. Syncretism, a fusion of Catholicism and paganism, is as openly practiced here as anywhere in the world. Please help us pray that this high place will no longer belong to Satan, as the people and their land are redeemed by the blood of Jesus.(Great photo gallery! Commission for Promotion of Peru.)
Peru Tourism Video
(Great short videos about Peru)
Inti Raymi
(Pagan festival in Cuzco. Click on Inti Raymi then click on Ver Video to see a video of this festival.)
Encyclopedia.com- CUZCO [Cuzco] or Cuzco , city (1993 pop. 97,466), alt. 11,207 ft (3,416 m), capital of Cuzco dept., S Peru, at the confluence of the Huatanay and Tullamayo rivers. Its population is predominantly native. It is a transportation hub and a trading center for agricultural produce and for woolen textiles produced in the Cuzco mills. It also has a large tourist industry, based on its proximity to many ancient Inca sites. According to legend, Cuzco was founded by Manco Capac, first of the Inca rulers. The city had massive palaces and temples (most notably the Temple of the Sun, now the site of a Dominican convent), which were lavishly decorated with gold medallions and ornaments. When Francisco Pizarro entered the city in 1533, it was plundered; and on its ruins the conquerors and their descendants built the colonial city, using the ancient walls (many of which are still visible) as foundations for new buildings. The cathedral and church of La Merced is the most notable of Cuzco's many churches. A severe earthquake in 1950 destroyed much of the city, but most of the historic buildings have been restored. The National Univ. of Cuzco is in the city; nearby are the ruins of the Inca fortress Sacsahuamán.
Author not available, CUZCO., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006
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Encyclopedia.com- MACHU PICCHU [Machu Picchu] , Inca site in Peru, about 50 mi (80 km) NW of Cuzco. It is perched high upon a rock in a narrow saddle between two sharp mountain peaks and overlooks the Urubamba River 2,000 ft (600 m) below. Ignored and later forgotten by Spanish colonial authorities because of its abandoned condition, the site was uncovered in 1911 by the American explorer Hiram Bingham . The imposing city is one of the largest pre-Columbian sites found virtually intact. It contains rare examples of religious monuments, including a carved stone (the Intiwatana ), a small tower (the Torreón ), and a cave with a masonry entrance (the Intimachay ). Such indigenous shrines were generally destroyed by Spanish authorities. Perhaps the most spectacular ruin in the Americas, Machu Picchu spreads over 5 sq mi (13 sq km), with over 3,000 steps linking its many different levels. It shows admirable architectural design and execution, including a terracing system built on extremely steep terrain; it has been estimated that 60% of the effort expended on construction was devoted to creating the terraces. Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that it represents a mountain retreat of the Inca leader Pachacuti Yupanqui, who ruled c.1438-1471. Investigators have suggested the site may have served as a religious sanctuary and that the masonry windows at two of its monuments may have been aligned so as to define the June and December solstices. Experts do not agree whether the numerous steep walls at Machu Picchu and surrounding Inca sites were built as military fortifications or simply to delimit the boundaries of these special state installations.
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The CIA World Fact Book - Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1824. After a dozen years of military rule, Peru returned to democratic leadership in 1980, but experienced economic problems and the growth of a violent insurgency. President Alberto FUJIMORI's election in 1990 ushered in a decade that saw a dramatic turnaround in the economy and significant progress in curtailing guerrilla activity. Nevertheless, the president's increasing reliance on authoritarian measures and an economic slump in the late 1990s generated mounting dissatisfaction with his regime, which led to his ouster in 2000. A caretaker government oversaw new elections in the spring of 2001, which ushered in Alejandro TOLEDO as the new head of government - the first democratically elected president of Quechua ethnicity. The presidential election of 2006 saw the return of Alan GARCIA who, after a disappointing presidential term from 1985 to 1990, returned to the presidency with promises to improve social conditions.
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