Huari

The Huari people inhabited the central Conchucos region, east of the Cordillera Blanca in northern Peru. Their communities occupied valleys and mountain slopes around places such as Huari and Huántar. Local traditions distinguished groups associated with the valley from highland herders known as Llakwash. In the fifteenth century the Inca incorporated the region into their empire, adding imperial roads and administrative arrangements to an older landscape of settlements and sacred places.