Xauxa

The Xauxa people lived in the northern Mantaro valley of central Peru before the Incas established the provincial centre of Hatun Xauxa. The future emperor Topa Inca Yupanqui subdued the region before taking the throne in 1471, and Xauxa soldiers served in campaigns towards Quito.

During the Inca civil war, Xauxa supported Huáscar against Atahualpa, whose general Challco Chima seized the city. In 1534 Francisco Pizarro founded Spanish Jauja, briefly the capital of Spanish Peru before Lima replaced it.