In the first decades after the Spanish Invasion this town was one of the main ones of the region and also See of the Curaca . Gonzalo Pizarro was commended of all Yanque Collawas and set his residences in Coporaque.
Francisco Jerónimo de Oré, priest of this town, referring about this town, let us know that in service of Mayta Capac Inca, who has Mama Yacchi for wife, woman of the Collawas; Andean Indians built a big house cover with cooper , to host the Inca and his wife. Coporaque emerges in the beginning with the ayllus of Yumasca, Cupi, Collana Pataca and Cayao Pataca.
This town maintained its primitive pre-hispanic establishment and constituted the first point of religious evangelization in the region of Colca. Beetween 1571 and 1574, together with other ten reductions, it belonged to the e distribution of Yanque. The name comes from the Quechua words " qhoto " (mountain of corn) and " rake " (place where it is distributed): "place where the corn is distributed." At the moment it has a population of 1,238 inhabitants approximately. Their saint patron is San Isidro, It takes place in May 15th. They also celebrate Santiago Matamoros in July 25th. The guardian hill is the Pumachiri in the north of the town.
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