Chuqlluqucha

Castrovirreyna lies high in the Andes of central Peru, amid cold mountain valleys and silver-bearing rock. Its mining district was discovered in 1591, and a settlement grew around the work of extracting and processing ore. The town took its name from the wife of Viceroy García Hurtado de Mendoza. Like other Andean mining centers, its fortunes depended on labor and supplies brought across difficult mountain routes to the high workings.