Yampara

The Yampara are an Andean people of the valleys of Chuquisaca in central Bolivia, who gave their name to the province of Yamparáez. They may have been resettled in the region as Inca mitimaes, and by the late fifteenth century they shared the fate of the neighboring Charca when the armies of the Inca Túpac Yupanqui reached their valleys.

In 1538 their cacique Kuysara built the alliance that brought Gonzalo Pizarro's Spaniards into the region, leading to the founding of the city that became Sucre. During the independence wars Yampara fighters joined the revolutionaries and helped defeat royalist troops at the battle of Jumbate in 1816.