Huancayo: The population that could not be conquered
Title was awarded after sacrifice of more than five thousand huancas in Batalla de Azapampa
Every March 19, Huancayo remembers the courage and ferocity of the ancient huancas, who in 1820 faced an unequal war against the Spanish army, sacrificed their lives and defended the city that since then was known as ?? The incontrastable ?? or the one that can not be conquered.
BATTLE. ON DECEMBER 29, 1820, MORE THAN 5 THOUSAND HUANCAS, WERE ARRIVED OF PEAKS, HONDAS, AZADONES, STICKS AND A FEW WITH FIREARMS, TO WAIT FOR THE SPANISH INVASORS IN THE SECTOR OF AZAPAMPA, AT THE COMMAND OF THE GREATER ASCENCIO ALDAO. THE REALISTS WERE COMING FROM THE CUSCO, WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF PLACING THE CITY, WHICH, IN THE LAST THINGS, NEITHER HAD DONE TO THE CONQUEST OF THE OWN INCAS.
The Spaniards, commanded by Ricafort, arrived with the slogan of killing the Huanca rebels and the officer Álvarez de Arenales, who a month earlier, on November 20, had proclaimed the Independence of Peru on Calle Real.
A day before the massacre of Azapampa, Ricafort arrived with 1,300 well-armed Spanish soldiers, to the present district of Huayucachi, who burned in revenge for the daring of the huancas by such proclamation of freedom. At three in the afternoon, in Azapampa, the Huancas confronted the Spaniards. Thousands offered their lives, 500 died stabbed.
Admired by the value of the huancas, the provisional governor of Peru, Torre Tagle, gave Huancayo the title of ?? Uncontrastable City ?? (City that can not be conquered), March 19, 1822.