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COMMUNITY OF URIN QOSQO
Urin Qosqo, which in Quechua means Lower Cusco, is an ancestral Quechua speaking village located close to an Inca archaeological site, where the National Institute of Culture has carried out excavations and research, finding pottery dated to 900 years before Christ. The cultures Chanapata and Lucre occupied the site before the Incas. An interesting fact revealed by the excavations at the site is that the inhabitants kept their dead in a kind of mausoleum within an area used for daily domestic activities. A kind of vaulted ceiling replaced the traditional straw roof of the time |
Next to this archaeological site, is the village of Urin Qosqo. These Quechua speaking inhabitants wear their traditional clothing and retain many of their oldest cultural patterns, which have been handed down from generation to generation. T
hey are very proud of these customs, with which they entirely identify. Today, with the help of institutions, local people have rebuilt their houses using mud brick and tile roofs of colonial design.
The scenery of this area is also very agreeable.
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