Cangallo is a town in southern

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, capital of the province Cangallo in the region

Ayacucho Ayacucho (, qu, Ayak'uchu) is the capital city of Ayacucho Region and of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru. During the Inca Empire and Viceroyalty of Peru periods the city was known by the name of Huamanga (Quechua: Wamanga), and it c ...

. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática
Banco de Información Digital
, retrieved 9 January 2008 In the region of Cangallo live the

Morochuco The Morochucos are the cowboys of the plains of the Peruvian Andes, living mainly in the Region of Ayacucho. They raise cattle and tame horses for their livelihood, and they engage in other typical activities of a cattle-horseman cowboy. They are ...

mestizos.

Fight for independence at Cangallo 1814–1822

As a consequence of the discrimination of

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and mestizos in Perú, there were many executions of Peruvian indigenous leaders by the Spanish colonial authorities, the

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. In the course of the many rebellions and

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s, the

population of the Cangallo region declared

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from colonial Spain in 1814. The Morochuco farmers then fought several battles in the region of Cangallo, among others at Matará, Rucumachay, Atunguana and Atuntoqto. The resistance against colonial troops went on until 1821. One of the Morochuco leaders became Basilio Auqui. He prepared a mud field in the plain of Seqchapampa so the Spanish cavalry would die in the mud trap which was successful on 21 November 1821 when Spanish cavalry was sent and a flight movement was simulated. As revenge for the defeat of the best colonial Spanish cavalry in the mud the Spanish intendant José Domingo Carratalá led the Cangallo attack by Spanish troops on 17 December 1821. Cangallo was razed and Spanish troops

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the population shooting elder men, women and children. After more attacks by Basilio Auqui's units, the resistance movement under Auqui came to an end by

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in 1822, when the Spanish intendant Carratalá set out a

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on Auqui. The traitor Quinto got the money, Auqui was captured, brought to

and executed by shooting on the Plaza de Santa Teresa in Ayacucho. There is a

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of the

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of Cangallo Morochuco resistance at the place he was shot.

Sources

* Prof. Juan Perlacios Campos: ''Historia''; Centro Preuniversitario de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga; Ayacucho, Perú

References

External links

Morochuco hero Basilio Auqui of Cangallo – fight for independence (1814–1822)
(Radio Sucre, Perú, detailed text in Spanish, with foto) {{Authority control Populated places in the Ayacucho Region