Huarco Coast

Off the central Peruvian coast lies the Cañete valley, home of the Huarco polity and the fishing settlement of Cerro Azul. Its people drew food from the Pacific and cultivated fields watered by canals from the Cañete River. In the fifteenth century the Inca advanced down the valley under Topa Inca Yupanqui. Huarco communities fortified Cerro Azul and the canal head at Ungará; their resistance continued for several years before the Inca conquest.