Plaza with a view
This photo was taken at a corner in Cusco, Peru. The plaza was big and beautiful.
About this place:
Cusco (also spelled Cuzco, and in the local Quechua language as Qusqu IPA: ['qos.qo]) is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley (Sacred Valley) of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cusco Province. The city has a population of about 300,000, triple the figure of 20 years ago. Located on the eastern end of the Knot of Cusco, its altitude is around 3,300 m (10,800 feet). The historic capital of the Inca empire, Cusco was found in 2006 to be the spot on Earth with the highest ultraviolet light level.
Cusco, Departamento de Cusco, PE
Discovered by Anthony Lujan
on 28 May 2008.
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