Editing Pachacamac (section)

==Spanish invasion==
At sites like Pachacamac, the Spanish used local resentment of the Inca as a tactic for overthrowing Inca rule.<ref name=":2" />

After the [[Battle of Cajamarca]], [[Francisco Pizarro]] sent his brother [[Hernando Pizarro]], and fourteen horsemen, to Pachacamac to collect its gold riches. According to Cieza, the priests learned of the Spanish defilement of the [[Cuzco]] temple, and "ordered the virgin ''mamaconas'' to leave the Temple of the Sun", from where they say the priests also removed more than four hundred ''cargas'' of gold. They hid the treasures and it has not appeared to this day. Hernando departed Cajamarca on 5 January 1533, and returned on 14 April 1533, after defiling the temple. On the return trip through the '''Jauja Valley''', he accepted the surrender of [[Chalcuchimac]].<ref name="Leon">Leon, P., 1998, The Discovery and Conquest of Peru, Chronicles of the New World Encounter, edited and translated by Cook and Cook, Durham: Duke University Press, {{ISBN|9780822321460}}</ref>{{rp|237-237}}

"In a few years the walls of the temple were pulled down by the Spanish settlers, who found there a convenient quarry for their own edifices."<ref name=Prescott/>{{rp|189}}