Editing Diego de Almagro (section)

== Conquest of Peru ==
{{main|Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire}}
By 1524 an association of conquest regarding South America was formalized among De Almagro, Pizarro and Luque.<ref name=Hemming>{{cite book |last=Hemming |first=J. |year=1970 |title=The Conquest of the Incas |publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York |isbn=0151225605}}</ref>{{rp|24}} By the beginning of August 1524, they had received the requisite permission to discover and conquer lands further south. In the first expedition, De Almagro lost his eye to an arrow shot at the [[Battle of Punta Quemada]]. He subsequently remained in Panama to recruit men and gather supplies for the expeditions led by Pizarro.<ref name=Prescott/>{{rp|92–102}}

After several expeditions to South America, Pizarro secured his stay in Peru with the ''Capitulation'' on 6 July 1529.<ref name=Prescott>{{cite book |last=Prescott |first=W.H. |year=2011 |title=The History of the Conquest of Peru |publisher=Digireads.com Publishing |isbn=9781420941142}}</ref>{{rp|133}} During Pizarro's continued exploration of Incan territory, he and his men succeeded in defeating the Inca army under Emperor [[Atahualpa]] during the [[Battle of Cajamarca]] in 1532. De Almagro joined Pizarro soon afterward, bringing more men and arms.<ref name=Leon>{{cite book |last=Leon |first=P. |year=1998 |title=The Discovery and Conquest of Peru, Chronicles of the New World Encounter |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822321460}}</ref>{{rp|219–222,233}}

After Peru fell to the Spanish, both Pizarro and De Almagro initially worked together in the founding of new cities to consolidate their dominions. As such, Pizarro dispatched De Almagro to pursue [[Quizquiz]], fleeing to the Inca Empire's northern city of [[Quito]]. Their fellow conquistador [[Sebastián de Belalcázar]], who had gone forth without Pizarro's approval, had already reached Quito and witnessed the destruction of the city by Inca general [[Rumiñawi (Inca warrior)|Rumiñawi]]. The Inca warrior had ordered the city to be burned and its gold to be buried at an undisclosed location where the Spanish could never find it. The arrival of [[Pedro de Alvarado]] from Guatemala, in search of Inca gold further complicated the situation for Almagro and Belalcázar. Alvarado's presence, however, did not last long as he left South America in exchange for monetary compensation from Pizarro.<ref name=Prescott/>{{rp|223–227}}

In an attempt to claim Quito ahead of Belalcázar, in August 1534 De Almagro founded a city on the shores of Laguna de Colta (Colta Lake) in the foothills of Chimborazo, some {{convert|200|km|mi}} south of present-day Quito, and named it "Santiago de Quito." Four months later would come the foundation of the Peruvian city of [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]], which Almagro named as "Villa Trujillo de Nueva Castilla" (the Village of Trujillo in New Castille) in honor of Francisco Pizarro's birthplace, Trujillo in Extremadura, Spain. These events were the height of the Pizarro-Almagro friendship, which historians describe as one of the last events in which their friendship soon faded and entered a period of turmoil for the control of the Incan capital of Cuzco.