The history of the region Collaguas where the Valley of the Colca is located, begins approximately in the year 200 of the Christian era with a reduced population in charge of family nuclei.

After the deterioration of the culture Wari (1100 after Christ) they make their appearance in the region the Collaguas, town dismembered aymará of the nation Lucana.

Finally with the appearance of the Inca culture the ethnic headquarters of the region opted for an alliance politics that was sealed, according to the oral tradition, with the marriage among Tancay Suckles Yanchi, daughter of the curaca of Coporaque, and the Inca Mayta Capac.

In the XIX century they were removed the Curacas and in their place they put on the Mayor's offices of Indians, with the time the mayors would become domestic servants of the ecclesiastical authorities.