Tayaccasa

Tayaccasa lies in the mountain country of Tayacaja, around Pampas in the Peruvian highlands. The town appears in colonial records in 1594 as San Pedro de Pampas, under the local cacique Lázaro Tupa Inca Huacachi. The surrounding valleys and high slopes form part of Huancavelica, a region whose history of human settlement reaches back to early rock shelters and caves.