Huamachuco

Huamachuco was a Culli-speaking highland lordship, probably centred on the walled sanctuary-city of Markahuamachuco in northern Peru. Its oracle of the thunder god Catequil drew pilgrims to the sanctuary at Namanchugo.

The Incas conquered the lordship around 1470 and moved its people to a new town on the Cusco–Quito road, with more than two hundred storehouses. Atawallpa destroyed the old Catequil shrine. In 1553 Augustinian missionaries founded a Spanish town on the Inca site.