Goldsmiths and warriors of the southern Ecuadorian highlands whose stone city of Tomebamba became, after their conquest, one of the twin capitals of the Inca world.
Not an ending: loosely assimilated into Tawantinsuyu, the Cañari kept local self-government while adopting Quechua, and Tomebamba became a favoured Inca capital under Huayna Cápac; after backing Huáscar in the Inca Civil War they suffered a massacre by Atahualpa's forces at Tomebamba, and in response allied with Pizarro and then Belalcázar against the Inca and the Kingdom of Quito. Cañari descendants persist today around Cuenca in Ecuador's Cañar and Azuay provinces.
Hemming's standard history of the Inca conquest, the Cañari fall to Tupac Yupanqui and their later alliance with Pizarro.
Narrative history of the Spanish conquest of the Andes in which the Cañari took the conquistadors' side.