Quingnam

The Quingnam group includes the Chimú of the northern Peruvian coast with the Tallan, the Cañari and the Puruhá. Quingnam itself was the official language of Chimor, the kingdom that arose around 900 and ruled from the adobe city of Chan Chan.

Chimor conquered Lambayeque around 1375 and overran the Tallan. Around 1470 the Incas under Topa Inca Yupanqui took Chimor, and they later subdued the Cañari and Puruhá of highland Ecuador; the Cañari, who backed Huáscar in the Inca civil war, were punished by Atahualpa. The Spaniards arrived in 1532, and Quingnam was extinct by 1763.