Lamas

Lamas is the capital of Lamas Province in the San Martín Region of northern Peru, with 16,871 inhabitants in the 2007 census, and is the original home of the Kichwa-Lamista people. The 2005 northern Peru earthquake shook Lamas, killing five people and injuring 174, and left hundreds homeless. According to the article the place has been conquered twice. The first conquest involved the Pocras and a group of Hanan Chancas who, supposedly defeated by the troops of the Inca Pachacútec in the battle of Yahuarpampa in 1438, abandoned their territory and went into the forest, where they found a favourable site on the hill where the city stands today, which was already inhabited by one of the indigenous groups of the area. Ankoallo, the leader of the Pocras, is considered the founder of the town of Lamas.