{"id":1996,"date":"2025-11-10T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caminoincatarata.pe\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:39:26","slug":"chiefdoms-in-tarata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caminoincatarata.pe\/en\/chiefdoms-in-tarata\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefdoms in Tarata"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1996\" class=\"elementor elementor-1996\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-848c823 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"848c823\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7574f2b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7574f2b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e2a48f elementor-widget elementor-widget-wd_text_block\" data-id=\"8e2a48f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wd_text_block.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wd-text-block reset-last-child text-left\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<h2>Chiefdoms in Tarata: The Dual Role of the Indigenous Elite<\/h2><p>The chiefdoms, also known as <i>kurakasgos<\/i>, have an origin <b>purely pre-Hispanic<\/b>. Its main function was to serve as <b>intermediaries<\/b> between the State (first the Inca, then the Spanish) and the indigenous community.<\/p><p><b>However,<\/b> Their role became drastically more complicated during the Colonial period. <b>Despite being of the same race<\/b>, The chieftains were directly responsible for the <b>tax collection<\/b> in favor of the Spanish Crown. <b>Besides,<\/b> They organized the forced labor of the <b>mita<\/b>.<\/p><p><b>Therefore,<\/b> In this colonial context, the figure of the cacique played a <b>double and contradictory role<\/b>: towards its community members and, <b>on the other hand<\/b>, towards the interests of the Spanish people.<\/p><h3>The Influence of the Great Chiefdom of Pomata<\/h3><p>According to historian C\u00faneo Vidal, the first chieftains found in the history of Tarata date back to the year <b>1568<\/b>. <b>In this sense,<\/b> The Indians of the Tarata, Putina, and Sama communities were under the influence of the &quot;great chiefs&quot; of the larger lake chiefdom of <b>Pomata<\/b>. This connection was mainly due to the trade in coca and guano.<\/p><p><b>In fact,<\/b> The documents from that time (1568) confirm that the <b>Chambilla<\/b> and <b>Martin Diego<\/b> They were joint chieftains of Pomata, Tarata, Putina and the Sama Valley. <b>Finally,<\/b> These leaders had direct representatives in the Tarata territory, such as <b>Francisco Ninaja, Mart\u00edn Pillco Ninaja and Miguel Ger\u00f3nimo Ninaja Calisaya<\/b>, all of them native Indians of Pomata.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chiefdoms of Tarata, with pre-Hispanic origins, served as colonial intermediaries and connected the region with Pomata from 1568.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[81,77,76],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patrimonio","tag-cacicazgos","tag-historia","tag-tarata"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cacicazgos en Tarata - Camino Inca Tarata (Qhapaq \u00d1an), Tacna<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cacicazgos en Tarata. 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