Culture notes p.

40-43 November 3, 2008

Cuzco = 3,400 meters above sea level
= located in the Andes mountains
=The oldest city in South America
= was the capital of the Incan Empire

El templo del sol =temple of the sun

=is a sacred place to the Incas
=Currently called the Church of Santo Domingo
Cuzco means =el ombligo del mundo= bellybutton of the world
Quechua =the name of the Incan language
Los mercados =markets that sell artesanias (handicrafts), fruits, veggies, and leather
goods
La Plaza de Armas =formerly known as huacaypata
= The Cathedral of Cuzco is located here
The Cathedral of Cuzco= built in 1560, and took 94 years to build
Las paredes incas =the Incan walls have buildings built on top of them from the colonial
period
El festival of Chorpus Cristi= occurs in June and lasts for 1 week
=ends with a big parade
=combines Incan and Christian traditions
Inti Raymi =Festival of the sun
=occurs on the 24th of June
=one of the most important festivals for the Incan Empire
La ciudad of Cuzco =was built in the shape of a puma
=was very important to the Incan people
La piedra de los doce ángulos= (the stone of 12 angles) is on the wall of the Incan palace
Hatunrumiyoc.
= you cannot get a credit card between the stones
Fortaleza of Sacsayhuaman= fortress, makes the head of the puma
El retorno a Egipto =painted by Diego Quispe Tito, and indigenous painter
Diego Quispe Tito =started a school after an earthquake damaged much of the paintings of
indigenous people
La cerámica cuzqueña- combines 2 traditions: Incan and colonial to make ceramic items
La carería - popular art form that takes candles and wraps them in Incan Flags
Typical food of Perú =they have hundreds of different kinds of potatoes (papas). Corn was
cultivated here first, over 7000 years ago.
Wool (lana) comes from the vicuña, llama or the alpaca- and makes a lot of the textiles of the
Quechua people
The Incan people used step farming in order to aid with irrigation and keep the plants from
sliding off the mountain.