Pukamuru

Pukamuru is associated with the Bracamoros region, a river country of forest and valleys in the eastern Andean lowlands of Ecuador and Peru. Spanish sources used the name for several Indigenous groups as well as a wider region. Rivers and paths connected communities across this landscape. In the sixteenth century Spanish expeditions and settlement brought new demands and conflict, and from 1549 colonial authorities distributed territories in the area as encomiendas.