Cusco
Britishnoun
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Cusco police chief General Julio Cesar Becerra told the Andina state news agency that 15 people were injured, including one seriously.
From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025
The festival is still celebrated throughout the Andes, and since 1944, a reconstruction of Inti Raymi has been staged in Cusco, Peru, less than two miles from its Inca Empire home.
From National Geographic • Dec. 19, 2023
She recruited rotating brigades of students to create the study plots and spent her weekends shuttling people and supplies between Cusco and the field site, along a steep unpaved road plagued with rock falls.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2023
He claimed the bodies had been found in Cusco, Peru, in 2017 and that radiocarbon testing dated the objects to be up to 1,800 years old.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023
“I was in Cusco, and I’d been backpacking for weeks.”
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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