Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. A sacred landscape:the search for ancient Peru in SearchWorks catalog Skip to search Skip to main content The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a system of 328 huacas (shrines) arranged along 42 ceques (lines) radiated out toward the mountains surrounding the city. ZEDKL1U8XP