According to the legend, the Cusco sacred city and capital of the Empire of the Tahuantinsuyo, it was founded around the XI and XII centuries d.C, by Ayar Manco. According to bill the legend was 4 brothers in search of the valley of the Cusco, of which Ayar Manco was the founder and first Inca of the Tawantinsuyo.

Cusco was the center of government of the four extensive regions or Suyos of the fabulous Incan Empire, that it ended up embracing great part of what is Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. The Incan society was an admirable example of political-social organization, for its big knowledge in architecture, hydraulic engineering, medicine and agriculture.

March 23 of 1534 Francisco Pizarro founded on the city of the Cusco a Spanish city that was built on the Inca foundations. Cusco is therefore, a typical example of cultural coalition having inherited architectural monuments and works of art of incalculable value.

In the viceroyship Cusco big rebellions were happened against the Spanish domain, as that of José Gabriel Condorcanqui (Túpac Amaru II) in 1781, that of the Angulo brothers and that of Pumacahua in 1814.

Cusco is the archaeological capital of America, it was the capital of the Inca Empire. It is to a height of 3,360 m on the level of the sea, surrounded of its 4 apus (snowy) : the Ausangati, the Salqantay, the Pachatusan and the Wanakauri.

The Cusco is the intersection of several cultures. The Square of Cusco known as the Wajaypata Square, in the Inca times was the center of the ceremonies and festivities; today, it continues being the contact point for diverse celebrations.