Collique

The Collique, also called Colli, were the lords of the lower and middle Chillon valley on the central Peruvian coast, holding from sea to Chuquicoto on the Canta border. Their polity, flourishing from about 900 to 1470, was ruled by a curaca titled Collicapac from the fortress of Collique.

Warlike, they fought repeated wars over water and farmland, once raiding into the Lima valley; the Huarochiri Manuscript records a war with the Checa and Concha of the Yauyos, in which they lost part of their highland territory, though trading and building irrigation works with the Canta.

When Tupac Yupanqui's army entered the valley they refused to submit, trusting their fortress. The Inca stormed it, killed Collicapac and his warriors, and resettled the survivors; mitimaes colonists were brought in, an Ichma lord placed over the valley, and the fortress replaced by the tambo of Tambo Inga.