mezquina

Updated: May 24, 2025

I once saw them reciting a geography lesson, but I doubt if even the teacher knew whether or not this was the site of the first school in this whole region. For it was to "Puquiura" that Friar Marcos came in 1566. Perhaps he built the "mezquina capilla" which Raimondi scorned.

Hiram Bingham - Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru