Llacsapallanca

Llacsapallanca belongs to the central Andean highlands in the wider country associated with Wari Willka. Valleys and upland plains offer different resources, encouraging exchange between farmland and pasture. Potatoes, other highland crops and camelids support households; paths cross slopes and passes, making knowledge of altitude and season important to travel and production.

In the late pre-Hispanic period, Inca expansion incorporated many central Andean communities into systems of roads, storage and labour obligations. Local institutions continued to organise family and communal life. Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century introduced new authorities, Christian institutions and demands for tribute and labour. Disease and changes in landholding placed severe pressure on Indigenous communities.

The later city of Huancavelica lies here.