Chuwi

The Chuwi, also spelled Chuis or Chuwis, were one of the Aymara lordships that took shape on the Bolivian altiplano after the collapse of Tiwanaku and flourished between about 1150 and 1477.

Their valleys lay in what are now the departments of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca, around Mizque, and their ayllus formed part of the Charka kingdom of Collasuyu alongside the Chayanta, Sakaka and Qhara Qhara.

First overborne by the expanding Charca, the Chuwi later became their allies; the chronicles place them at Sacaca with the Caracara and Chichas when the highland peoples made their pact with the Spaniards. Like the other Aymara señoríos they were absorbed into the Inca state under Túpac Yupanqui, keeping their dual chiefly structure within it.