Pukamuru

Pukamuru, or Bracamoros, were Indigenous groups in the Amazonian valleys of present-day southern Ecuador and northern Peru. They practiced agriculture, growing crops including corn and yuca.

The chronicler Pedro Cieza de León recorded an unsuccessful Inca invasion around 1520. In 1536 an expedition ordered by Francisco Pizarro founded short-lived Jérez de la Frontera. From 1549 inhabitants entered Spanish encomiendas; forced labour and disease reduced their number from twenty thousand to fifteen hundred by 1606.