Cusco Province is the smallest of thirteen
provinces in the
Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...
in the southern highlands of
Peru.
Geography
Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:
Political division
The province is divided into eight
districts
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( es, distritos, singular: ''distrito''), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are:
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Cusco
Cusco, often spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu ()), is a city in Southeastern Peru near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region and of the Cusco Province. The city is the list of cities in Peru, seventh m ...
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Cusco
Cusco, often spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu ()), is a city in Southeastern Peru near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region and of the Cusco Province. The city is the list of cities in Peru, seventh m ...
) (seat)
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Ccorca (
Ccorca)
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Poroy (
Poroy)
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San Jerónimo (
San Jerónimo)
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San Sebastián
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San Sebastián
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)
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Santiago (
Santiago)
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Saylla (
Saylla)
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Wanchaq (
Wanchaq)
Ethnic groups
The province is inhabited by
indigenous citizens of
Quechua descent.
Spanish is the language which the majority of the population (80.87%) learnt to speak in childhood, 18.22% of the residents started speaking using the
Quechua language (
2007 Peru Census
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).
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INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007
Archaeological sites
Some of the most important archaeological sites of the province are as follows:
See also
* Santurantikuy Santurantikuy (Quechua language, Quechua ''santu'' saint (a borrowing from Spanish language, Spanish ''santo''), ''rantikuy'' to buy something only for oneself, "to buy oneself a saint") is a craft fair held annually on December 24 in the central sq ...
References
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Provinces of the Cusco Region
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