Anccara

The Anccara, also written Angaraes or Ankaras, were Quechua-speaking people of the cold highlands around Huancavelica in the central Peruvian sierra, whose señorío took shape in the Late Intermediate Period. The region was later drawn into the Wari cultural sphere; as an independent nation the Anccara kept up alliances and border wars with the Yauyos, Wanka and other neighbours.

With the Chanca they joined the Chanca confederation that marched on Cusco and was shattered by the young Pachacuti; in the 1460s his Inca armies brought the Anccara lands into the Tawantinsuyu, deporting part of the population as mitimaes.

After the Spanish conquest their territory was attached from the 1540s to the repartimiento of Huamanga, and the Huancavelica mercury mines transformed the region: Lircay was founded in 1572 as a mining center, and in 1612 the Anccara corregimiento was divided between Castrovirreyna and Huancavelica.