Inkas y Chichas: identidad, transformación y una cuestión fronteriza

Abstract

Inkas and Chichas: Identity, Transformation and a Border Question

During their dominion of the plateau and valleys of the south of present-day Bolivia and boreal north of Argentina, the Inka mining and agricultural enterprises of Porco, Chayanta, Tupiza, Suipacha and Tarija operated using as mitmaq and jatunrunas people belonging to the nations of Chichas, Carangas and Soras. These locations and activities determined the routes within this region of the Inka road, capacñam. The road connected these regions with the main route of capacñam that ran from the capital of Cuzco to the Kollasuyu, as well as several pucaras (fortresses) which had been placed to protect against guaraníes invasions. In spite of the transformations in their status and their movement as mitmaq, the Chichas never forgot their ethnic and territorial identity.