tocpos: colonial history of a diaguita group in the 17th century

Abstract

The tocpos were driven out by Topa Inca Yupanqui from the northern coast of present time Peru to the surroundings of Cerro Famatina, in present time northwest Argentina. The Spanish found them there in the 16th century; they were commissioned from 1591, successively transferred to London (Quinmivil Valley) first, and to the foot of the Aconquija after the centenary war of Calchaquí. The refugees in the Calchaquí Valley at the end of the 16th century were denaturalized in 1665. Their encomenderos did not disdain any of the known maneuvers to have, maintain and increase the number of Indians assigned to them. Meanwhile, the Tocpos preserved, at least until the 17th century, their language and customs.