Ayarmaca

The Ayarmaca were a chiefdom north and northwest of Cusco. In 1337 their leader Tocay Capac ruled a people who rivalled the Incas; chronicles credited him with capturing the young prince Titu Cusi Huallpa.

Towards the end of the fourteenth century the Chankas pressed the Ayarmaca from the south and west. After the Incas under Pachacuti broke Chanka power in the 1430s, the Ayarmaca domains were divided into three chiefdoms and absorbed into the Inca Empire.