The valley of the Huatanay River is divided into three parts, the basins of Lucre, Oropesa, and Cuzco.

The basaltic cliffs near Oropesa divide the Lucre Basin from the Oropesa Basin.

The basaltic cliffs near Oropesa divide the Lucre Basin from the Oropesa Basin.

The pass at Angostura, or "the narrows," is the natural gateway between the Oropesa Basin and the Cuzco Basin.

Dr. Aguilar lives near Oropesa.

As one comes from Oropesa, Mt. Piquillacta is a conspicuous point and is directly in line with the city ruins.

In the Oropesa Basin the most important ruins are those of Tipon, a pleasant, well-watered valley several hundred feet above the village of Quispicanchi.

Tipon was probably the residence of the principal chief of the Oropesa Basin.

My stay at Oropesa was rendered most comfortable and happy by the generous hospitality of Dr. Aguilar, whose finca is between Quispicanchi and Oropesa and commands a charming view of the valley.

My stay at Oropesa was rendered most comfortable and happy by the generous hospitality of Dr. Aguilar, whose finca is between Quispicanchi and Oropesa and commands a charming view of the valley.

From the Oropesa Basin, one enters the Cuzco Basin through an opening in the sandstone cliffs of Angostura near the modern town of San Geronimo.

When we asked the name of these ruins we were told that it was Saylla, although that is the name of a modern village three miles away, down the Huatanay, in the Oropesa Basin.

If old Saylla represents a fortress set here to defend Cuzco against old Oropesa, it might very naturally have been abandoned when the rule of the Incas finally spread far over the Andes.

At their left, beyond the blue mountains of Oropesa, which bound the Valencian gulf, he could see in imagination Barcelona, where he had numerous friends, Marseilles, that prolongation of the Orient fastened on the European coast, and Genoa with its terraced palaces on hills covered with gardens.

The Dean of the Assembly is Pedro Oropesa; next to him comes Ludovico Zapato; then, in regular order, Fernando Tellez, Garcias Moxica, Lorenzo Carvajal; Toribio Santiago sits next to the last-named, and after him come Juan Lopez, Palacios Rivas, and Ludovico Polanco.