Napuruna

The Napuruna, or Napo Runa, are the Quijos of the Napo, Aguarico and Putumayo river basins on the eastern slope of the Andes, in present-day Ecuador and Peru. Their original language, Shillipanu, gave way to Quichua, as it spread first through trade between the highlands and the lowlands and then with the Inca conquest of Ecuador.

The Spaniards entered their country in the sixteenth century and almost wiped the Quijos out. In 1578 the warrior Jumandi led a rising against Spanish rule; he was captured, tortured and killed in 1579.