Soras

Soras lies in the highlands of southern Peru, beneath the mountain revered locally as Payacca. The Sora people inhabited the valleys of this region before their incorporation into the Inca Empire. The great Inca road connected their country with neighbouring Andean provinces, and early Spanish chroniclers recorded a settlement called Soras along the route. In the sixteenth century the region became associated with Taki Onqoy, an indigenous religious movement responding to Spanish rule.