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Pampacolca or Pampaqullqa (Quechua pampa large plain, qullqa deposit) is one of fourteen districts of the province Castilla in Peru.[1]

Pampacolca Pampaqullqa
District
Country	Peru
Region	Arequipa
Province	Castilla
Capital	Pampacolca
Government
• Mayor	Vicente Justino Carcamo Huamani
Area
• Total	205.19 km2 (79.22 sq mi)
Elevation	2,950 m (9,680 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	3,683
• Density	18/km2 (46/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	040410

The District of Pampacolca is chiefly an agricultural center located in the highlands of the Arequipa Department in Southern Peru. Pampacolca in the Inca times was an important place of the Kuntisuyu, one of the four provinces of the Inca empire. The Incas used and improved the oracle of Mawk'allaqta located in the slopes of the Coropuna volcano. Such oracle has five important elements: Ushno, Mausoleum, Main Plaza, Pyramid and Callancas. In this Inca oracle they offered humans and animals to the sacred Coropuna mountain.

Pampacolca also is the birthplace of Juan Pablo Vizcardo y Guzmán, a Spaniard born in America who was expelled from his own country and forced to live in exile. From there he wrote the famous "Letter to the American Spaniards" enticing them to gain liberty from Spain.

See also

• Mawk'allaqta

References

External links

• Information about Maucallacta and the District of Pampacolca can be found in the web site: (in Spanish) www.maucallacta.com

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