When Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, on January 18, 1535, this area located between the valleys of Rímac and Lurín already had a long-standing history with its culture, the Ychsmaits inhabitants and its authorities.
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In his book ‘The Ychsma. Pre-Hispanic inhabitants of Lima’ (2022), the archaeologist Luisa Díaz Arriola reports that the society ychsma (1000 and 1532 AD) was made up of curacazgos and ayllus settled in the lower valleys of the Rímac and Lurín rivers.
Pizarro’s house, today the Government Palace, was built on top of the great palace of Taulichusco.
The residents he found pizarro they were devotees of pachacamac and they dedicated themselves to agriculture and fishing, taking advantage of the crops irrigated with the aforementioned rivers and the fish from its rich sea, respectively.
In the ceremonial center of pachacamac The chief curaca resided and the Rímac curacas were under his command, including the curacazgo of Sulco, which included the current districts of Chorrillos, Barranco, Surco, Surquillo and Miraflores.
Pachacámac pyramid with ramp, typical of the Ychma culture.
“Lima was a very leafy valley. There are several chroniclers who speak of it as an orchard due to the number of trees there were, both ornamental and fruit. It was a very cool valley”, indicated the historian María Rostworowski.
the valley of Lime It was very populated, but with the Spanish arrival many natives left because “they occupied their fields and irrigation,” chronicler Pedro Cieza de León recounted.
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