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| Hurin Cusco | |
|---|---|
| Name | Hurin Cusco |
| Settlement type | Sector |
| Subdivision type | Empire |
| Subdivision name | Inca Empire |
| Subdivision type1 | Region |
| Subdivision name1 | Cusco Region |
| Established title | Founded |
| Established date | 15th century |
Hurin Cusco Hurin Cusco was the lower moiety of the urban duality of Cusco, central to the Inca Empire and the political geography of the Andes. It functioned alongside the upper moiety to form the imperial capital that interfaced with imperial institutions such as the Tahuantinsuyu administration, the Inca road system, and ritual centers like Coricancha and Sacsayhuamán. Archaeological, ethnohistoric, and colonial sources link Hurin Cusco to lineage organizations, elite residences, and districts integrated with the broader networks of Qosqo elites, Inka lineages, and provincial governance.
The name Hurin Cusco combines a Quechua spatial qualifier with the toponym Cusco used in sources associated with Quechua language speakers and colonial chroniclers such as Guaman Poma de Ayala, Pedro Cieza de León, Bernabé Cobo, and Garcilaso de la Vega. Early chroniclers compare Hurin with terms recorded by José de Acosta and lexica compiled by Felipe Guamán Poma; modern linguists like Victor M. Mamani and Rolando Vargas analyze the morpheme "hurin" vis-à-vis constructions described in works by John Murra and Catherine Julien. Comparative toponymy connects Hurin Cusco to other Andean divisions discussed in studies by Willem F. H. Adelaar, Ricardo Moyano, and Gonzalo Fernández.
Hurin Cusco appears in accounts of dynastic succession narrated by Sapa Inca rulers including Manco Cápac, Sinchi Roca, Lloque Yupanqui, Mayta Cápac, Inca Roca, Yahuar Huacac, and Viracocha Inca, and later expanded under Pachacuti and Topa Inca Yupanqui. Colonial narratives from Diego de Trujillo-era informants and Juan de Betanzos integrate Hurin in descriptions of pre-conquest urban layout, kin groups like the Panakas, and factional tensions mirrored in episodes involving Atahualpa and Huáscar. Historians such as John Hemming, Garth F. Steffanson, and Terence D'Altroy situate Hurin within the dynamics of imperial expansion, tribute collection recorded in mit'a registers cited by Guillermo Lohmann Villena, and pilgrimage routes converging on ritual precincts like Saqsaywaman and Qenqo.
As part of the Cusco duality, Hurin Cusco operated in administrative relation to the hanan-hurin division used by Inca polity, with offices and ritual prerogatives noted in sources like the Huarochirí Manuscript and colonial legal petitions held in archives referenced by Titu Cusi Yupanqui. Political actors connected to Hurin appear in reports compiled by Alvarado, Polo de Ondegardo, and Viceroyalty of Peru officials who documented tributary organization and territorial governance. Institutional parallels are drawn with provincial governors such as the kurakas of Chinchaysuyu and Antisuyu, and with logistical nodes on the Qhapaq Ñan studied by archaeologists like Gary Urton and Richard L. Burger.
Hurin Cusco housed lineages, ceremonial wards, and artisan quarters linked to cultic centers including Coricancha, the Sun Temple described by José de Acosta and pictured in chronicles by Guaman Poma, and civic plazas where ritual calendars recorded by Andrés de Santa Cruz-era sources were enacted. Social structures within Hurin intersected with panaka households mentioned in Garcilaso de la Vega and with occupational groups like the aqllakuna and yanakuna noted by Poma de Ayala and Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Festivities and pilgrimages connected Hurin to sacred landscape features such as Mount Ausangate, Vilcanota River, and sites recorded in ethnographies by Julio C. Tello, Max Uhle, and Hugo Ñopo.
Excavations and architectural surveys in areas attributed to Hurin Cusco have been conducted by teams associated with institutions like Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Museo Inka, and foreign projects led by scholars including Max Uhle, John H. Rowe, Luis Lumbreras, Richard L. Burger, and Christopher B. Donnan. Material culture—ceramics comparable to types catalogued by Honoré Bernard and stone masonry resembling work at Saqsaywaman and Tambomachay—correlates with colonial maps and plans drawn by Pedro Sancho, José de Acosta, and Figure of Cuzco engravings reproduced in works by Guaman Poma and Bernabé Cobo. Artifact assemblages reveal textile production akin to collections in the Museo Larco and metallurgy comparable to holdings in the American Museum of Natural History.
Hurin Cusco remains a subject of scholarship and public heritage within contemporary debates involving Republic of Peru cultural policy, tourism managed in part by Ministerio de Cultura (Perú), and conservation projects at Cusco Cathedral and Coricancha. Interpretations by historians such as Terence N. D'Altroy, Michael A. Malpass, and William H. Isbell inform museum exhibits at Museo Regional de Cusco and academic curricula at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Contemporary indigenous movements and cultural organizations reference Hurin in symbolic reclamations discussed in media outlets and legal forums involving institutions like UNESCO, ICOMOS, and national registries curated by Instituto Nacional de Cultura.
Category:Cusco Category:Inca Empire Category:Archaeological sites in Peru