Chancay

Chancay was a coastal society centred on the Chancay and Chillón valleys of Peru, where local chiefs supervised farmers and artisans. Its settlements produced textiles and distinctive dark-on-light pottery, while irrigation sustained agriculture in the desert valleys.

Chimú forces conquered parts of southern Chancay in the early 1400s, and Inca expansion brought the region under their rule by about 1450. In 1551 the Spanish founded San Juan de Guaral in the Chancay valley, near an older community of ayllus.