Collique

Collique was a fortified center of the Colli people in the Chillón valley, north of Lima. Its walls and enclosures occupy a rocky hill commanding the surrounding valley and the routes between coast and highlands. In the fifteenth century the Colli resisted the expansion of the Inca ruler Tupac Yupanqui. The fortress later figured in the fighting around Lima during Manco Inca’s uprising against the Spanish in 1536.