Andaymarca

Andaymarca lay in the highland country of the Chucos, near the place later known as Santiago de Chuco. The settlement stood between mountain streams beneath the hill of Quilla Irca. Its inhabitants were brought under Inca rule before the arrival of Spanish settlers, who came to the district in search of mineral wealth. The later town grew in a landscape already occupied by Andean communities and organised around their local settlements.