Peru: Summer in Cusco. Study Spanish, Inca culture and other topics in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes with students from all over the world. Hilton College's partner university in Peru, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL), runs summer programs in the historic city of Cusco. Besides being the gateway city to the world famous Machu Picchu archaeological ruins, Cusco is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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All of these are very hard, superior to other stones in this respect, and not vesiculated like the stone called ala. The term ala is generally applied to the material, the kind of stone of which the Hawaiian ax was made, and the ax was often called koâi ala. Ala is a dark, heavy, close-grained basalt. In the Maori language the same dark, close-grained basalt is named ka-ra and is used in making the finest axes. Hawaiian Antiquities.