Note 278 — Chapter XLI

Cieza de Leon gives the best account of these Mitimaes or Colonists. Indeed, Garcilasso de la Vega quotes from him. (i, lib. vii, cap. 1; and i, lib. iii, cap. 19.) It is curious that the descendants of Mitimaes on the coast of Peru still retain the tradition concerning the villages in the Andes, whence their ancestors were transported. Thus the Indians of Arequipa are descended from Mitimaes who were sent from a village called Cavanilla, near Puno; those of Moquegua, from Mitimaes who were natives of Acora and Ilave, on the shores of Lake Titicaca; and those of Tacna, from natives of Juli and Pisacoma, near the same lake.