Yaro

The Yaro, also remembered as the Yarowilcas, were a pre-Inca people of the high Andes of central Peru, formed from communities that broke away when the Wari Empire collapsed around the eleventh century. Their nation dominated the Bombon plateau around Lake Chinchaycocha, and Yaro remains have been dated to as early as the ninth century.

Around 1200 they built the citadel of Gonicutac, a three-storey complex of stone and mud with residential, agricultural and religious quarters. From the thirteenth century their territory reached north into the Huallanca district and the lands later called Yarowilca, near Huanuco. The Yaro entered the Inca Empire as a confederated nation, keeping their own lords under Cuzco's overlordship.