Karanka

Karanka, called Carangas in Spanish chronicles, was an Aymara lordship of the southern altiplano. Its herders and caravans used lands from the high puna to colonies in Pacific valleys.

Around the mid-fifteenth century the Incas absorbed the Carangas into Collasuyo. Huayna Capac later moved Caranga communities to the Cochabamba valley as mitma settlers. Under Spanish rule their western enclaves passed to the corregimiento of Arica, separating highland communities from chiefly centres at Turco and Sabaya.