cacamarca

Updated: July 11, 2025

The day on which he set out from Pombo, he travelled some seven leagues, and he halted in a village called Cacamarca, and here they found seventy thousand pesos of gold in large pieces, to guard which the Governor left two Christians from the cavalry in order that when the rear-guard should arrive, it might be conducted well guarded.

Pedro Sancho - An Account of the Conquest of Peru