One of the first settlers who took contactacto tahuantinsuyanos starting with the English were the Tallan, who would become the staunchest allies of the Christians during the invasion of "Peru", here is an article of the newspaper El Comercio which made lights of this majestic civilization.
The tallanes
By: Cesar Robles
Journalist Lord for these lands the chiefs Copiz, Cutivalú, Chirimasa Maizavilca and in the years of 1528, in time of arrival of first conquering expedition led by Captain Bartholomew Ruiz to cove of Puerto Pizarro in the city now known as Tumbes.
flourished in these lands Tallan cultures, and to a lesser extent Tumpis cultures of Guayacundos, Huancapampas and Vicus in pre-Hispanic times, and the first female government curacas known as Las Capullana, on the north coast Piura.
regard, the northern scholar Genaro Vera Mace in his book "Culture Tallan" refers to the chronicler Fray Reginaldo Lizárraga notes: "By the River Motupe I found a people ruled by women who were Capullana, named for the English because of their dress that had a way of hoods, with which they cover the throat to feet, tightening the waist band. " Tallan
Ethnicity was an agricultural town and became the valleys of Tumbes, Piura and Chira in areas rich and fertile, which assured them a great food productivity, while causing the surprise of the first conquerors.
In his "Chronicle of Peru," says Cieza de Leon: "This Tumbes valley used to be heavily populated and styled, full of beautiful and fresh trenches, taken from the river, which watered everything they wanted, and caught much corn and other things necessary to human sustenance, and many very tasty fruit. "
However, it would have to characterize the tallanes be his dominion over the sea by sailing. The chronicler Cieza de León describes the encounter between Bartolomé Ruiz and rafters tallanes:
"and navigate your way one day, at the hour of none, they saw a raft at sea so large that it seemed the ship and she arrived on the ship and tomárosla with fifteen or twenty Indians who came dressed in her blankets, shirts and Avitus of war, and where a while saw other rafts with people. "
But long before, was the Inca ruler Tupac Yupanqui, come to this land in rapidly expanding the rule of Tahuantinsuyo, who was pleasantly surprised with wisdom and ability of the Fishermen Tallan and the strength of large ponds which were used to conquer the sea.
Tallan's ability and strength to dominate the sea is what drives the young Inca Tupac Yupanqui to start their maritime expeditions, which, according to José Antonio del Busto, historian and seasoned sailor, it brings out in Polynesia and Oceania "27 years before Columbus discovered America and 55 years before Magellan rediscovered Oceania."
Regarding its geographical domain, historical notes indicate that Tallan was encamped in the "geographical area comprising the areas Manta in Ecuador, to the north, and south to Olmos, and 20 miles inland. "
His tongue was the ZEC, and were characterized by a warlike people, unlike the Vicus, the people they represented through their pottery a homosexual inclination, always subject to the domination of the day, first under the Moche, then under the influence Chimu and later under the aegis of the Inca empire.
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