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What Peruvian city was the center of the Inca empire?

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Centered at Cuzco , Peru, the empire at the time of the Spanish conquest (1532) dominated the entire Andean area from Quito, Ecuador, S to the Río Maule, Chile, extending some 2,000 mi (3,200 km).

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