Pasco

The first inhabitants who settled in the region that today is known as Pasco were members of the Huanca culture, that extended their dominions by all the central mountain range and, by the constant wars with other cultures, like the Chanca, raised small fortifications for the defense.

With the submission to the Incaico Empire, Pasco happened to comprise of the Chinchaysuyo and to serve as refuge for the travellers in the direction of other regions.

During the Colony, the Spaniards discovered their fabulous mineral wealth. It counts the tradition that these deposits already were known there by year 1630, when the shepherd Santiago Huaricapcha, when taking refuge of a storm in the Yauricocha hill, improvised a bonfire to prepare his merienda and, the little short while, discovered that from stones of their bonfire silver threads descended. Ignorante, faithful and servant, communicated east discovery to its patrons, who from those times took possession from the most fabulous mines of silver, zinc, lead and receive of this part of the continent.

During the Republic, Daniel Alcides Carrión, one of his more illustrious children, gave to a great sample of professionalism and martirologio when inoculating the virus of the wart to systematize his effects and to find an antidote for this badly. A true example for the Peruvian and world-wide medicine.