The Cusco word comes from the Quechua word QOSQO which means "Center or navel of the world". This department is located in the southwest zone of Peru, located at 3360m. Cusco as city was founded on the Huatanay valley in centuries XI and XII by many Quechua-Speaking tribes, which came from the plateau of the lake Titicaca, leaded by the first Inca named Manco Capac.

Cusco was the sacred city and capital of the Tahuantinsuyo, was the government place of four extensive regions of this fabulous old empire, including great part of Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, getting to be the greatest empire of the South Hemisphere. Its society was example of political organization–social, great knowledge in architecture, engineering, metallurgy, hydraulics, medicine, agriculture, etc. It has three beautiful snow-covered mountain range systems that exceed the 6 thousand meters of height, where cultural, scientific and sport activities are fulfilled. Also it has the most important Amazon rain forest region with natural reserve of fauna and flora. March twenty third of 1534, Francisco Pizarro founded this city of the Cusco as a Spanish city, turning an example of Andean and catholic cultural fusion.

The city of Cusco is the main tourist destination in Peru and is the archeological capital of South America, for these reasons the tourists arrive at this department, finding many attractive places, landscapes, valleys, typical towns, lagoons, rivers, museums, customs, culture, diversity of conventional tourism and adventure tourism between the Andes and Amazon rain forest.

Peru Biking Tours is a operating agency in tourism of mountain bike at this region Cusco, from 1 up to 7 days travel with the entire infrastructure that it demands to practice this sport.