Qualla: Pallasca District https://qualla.com/pallasca-district en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/8/8/pallasca-district-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pallasca District https://qualla.com/pallasca-district Pallasca District: Introduction https://qualla.com/pallasca-district/ Photo credit AgainErick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Somewhere in the Tablachaca River - known in older maps as the Andamarca - the Spanish conquistadors are said to have dumped the body of Huáscar, last legitimate Sapa Inca. Huáscar had been imprisoned by his half-brother Atahualpa's men, then drowned on orders issued from Cajamarca as Francisco Pizarro closed in. The river that carried him away flows through Pallasca, and the people who live above its canyon have been telling the story for five centuries. Pallasca sits at 3,150 meters on the northern edge of the Cordillera Negra, a town of about five thousand souls where Quechua place names coexist with a Spanish-only population, and where history refuses to stay buried.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/8/8/pallasca-district-wp/6q88-pallasca-district-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pallasca District: A Name From a Noble https://qualla.com/pallasca-district/ Photo credit AgainErick, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name Pallasca itself comes, according to the historian Felix Álvarez Brun, from Apollacsa Vilca Yupanqui Tuquiguarac - a noble Andean figure who served the first conquistadors as they pushed down from Cajamarca, and was rewarded with a coat of arms for his trouble. That littl...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/8/8/pallasca-district-wp/6q88-pallasca-district-the-quechua-belt-without-the-quechua.mp3 0:06 3 full Pallasca District: The Feast of San Juan https://qualla.com/pallasca-district/ Photo credit AgainErick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Every June, Pallasca throws itself into the feast of San Juan Bautista, its patron saint, and the town comes out in costumes that map its whole history onto a single week. There are the Osos, men dressed as bears. There is Indian Culculbambá, a character whose name dates back bef...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/q/8/8/pallasca-district-wp/6q88-pallasca-district-the-feast-of-san-juan.mp3 0:06 4 full Pallasca District: The Stones and Sticks Battle https://qualla.com/pallasca-district/ Photo credit AgainErick, CC BY-SA 3.0. When the Chilean army occupied Peru during the War of the Pacific in the 1880s, Pallasca refused to cooperate with the occupying officers. Lacking proper weapons, patriotic locals fought with stones, sticks, and whatever hand-thrown implements they could grab. The toll was, in th...

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