Charka

The Charca were an Aymara-speaking people of the highlands and valleys of present-day central Bolivia. They traded with neighbours but faced raids by Ava Guarani from the eastern lowlands.

Inca armies entered their lands in the mid-fourteenth century, but the Charca resisted until late in the fifteenth century, when chief Copacatiraca persuaded the elders to submit to Tupac Yupanqui. Their warriors served in Inca armies. In 1540 the Spaniard Pedro Anzures founded Villa de la Plata, later called Chuquisaca, in the region.