The municipal management of Daniel Estrada Pérez and his intervention in the public spaces of the Historic Center of Cusco, was something that no other authority had done until then; Estrada knew how to direct and use various mechanisms to insert Cusco into modernity. The objective of the article is to analyze, know and synthesize the patrimonial interventions carried out (between successes and mistakes) in the Historic Center during Estrada’s municipal administration between 1990 and 1992, this stage was considered as a starting point for the recovery of the Cusco cultural identity. To achieve the purpose of the investigation, the information gathering technique of the newspaper El Comercio de Cusco was used; At the same time, an extensive bibliographic review was carried out, contrasting sources and complements with an interview with the architect Roberto Samanez Argumedo.

The municipal management of Daniel Estrada Pérez and his intervention in the public spaces of the Historic Center of Cusco, was something that no other authority had done until then; Estrada knew how to direct and use various mechanisms to insert Cusco into modernity. The objective of the article is to analyze, know and synthesize the patrimonial interventions carried out (between successes and mistakes) in the Historic Center during Estrada’s municipal administration between 1990 and 1992, this stage was considered as a starting point for the recovery of the Cusco cultural identity. To achieve the purpose of the investigation, the information gathering technique of the newspaper El Comercio de Cusco was used; At the same time, an extensive bibliographic review was carried out, contrasting sources and complements with an interview with the architect Roberto Samanez Argumedo.

La elección del presente tema de investigación, se debe al interés por conocer más acerca de la demografía histórica del Cusco virreinal, el mismo que se encontraba conformado por parroquias en las que a su vez residían pobladores diferenciados por grupos sociales (españoles, mestizos, indígenas y esclavos) y por categorías sociales (edad, sexo, estado civil, etc.). La parroquia del Hospital de los Naturales, fue una de las que mayor acogida tuvo tanto por su cercanía al centro de la ciudad como porque en ella se encontraba el Hospital de Naturales, recinto que acogía a personas que padecían males. Cabe aclarar que no es objetivo adentrarse en el estudio de dicha parroquia como iglesia parroquial, sino como jurisdicción con una determinada población. Así pues, al ser esta una parroquia concurrida surge el interés por indagar acerca de la composición de su población; pu...