Atavillos

The Atavillos, also written Atauillo, were a highland people of the Lima region whose territory covered the Canta and Huaral provinces, with communities also on the Bombon plateau near Cerro de Pasco and around Jauja.

They were one of many chiefdoms of the central Andes overrun by Inca general Capac Yupanqui during Pachacutec's northern campaigns, and their land entered the empire as the Chinchaysuyu province of Atawillu.

Francisco Pizarro's men entered their valleys in 1533 and 1534, and the people were later grouped into the reduction of San Agustin, whose lands Viceroy Toledo formally recognized in 1570. Pizarro himself was sometimes styled the Marquis of the Atavillos, though the crown never granted that title.