Ichuna

Ichuna lay in the upper Tambo country of the southern Peruvian Andes, where colonial life was closely tied to mining and Christian parishes. The date commonly given for Spanish recognition of Ichuna as a mining settlement, an asiento minero, is 19 April 1562. Ecclesiastical boundaries changed later in the colonial period: in 1793 Bishop Pedro Chaves de la Rosa separated Ichuna from the parish of Carumas and gave the locality its own parish. This reorganisation belonged to a wider network of doctrines governed from Arequipa.