Llama-herding lords of fortified hilltop towns in the broad Mantaro valley, perennially at odds with their Xauxa neighbours.
Not an ending: incorporated into Tawantinsuyu after hard fighting, the Huanca supplied soldiers for Inca campaigns toward Quito; when the Spanish arrived the Huanca allied early with Pizarro, supplying men and provisions, and were the only Andean auxiliary people King Philip II formally recognised for their help conquering Peru. Quechua-speaking Huanca/Wanka descendants persist today in the Jauja-Huancayo valley, Junín Region, Peru.
Hemming's history of the Inca conquest and the Wanka's early alliance with Pizarro.
Ramírez on contact and conflict in 16th-century Peru, the Mantaro valley world of the Wanka (broad context).