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Cangallo
Cangallo is a town in southern Peru, capital of the province Cangallo in the region Ayacucho.
In the region of Cangallo live the Morochuco mestizos.
Fight for independence at Cangallo 1814-1822
As a consequence of the discrimination of the natives and mestizos in Peru and the many executions of Peruvian aborigine leaders by Spanish colonial authorities of the viceroyalty and in the course of the many rebellions and independence movements the Morochuco population of the Cangallo region decleared independence from colonial Spain in 1814. Then the Morochuco farmers fought several battles in the region of Cangallo, among others at Matara, Rucumachay, Atunguana and Atuntoqto. The resistance against colonial troups went on until 1821.
One of the Morochuco leaders became Basilio Aqui. He let prepare a mud field in the plain of Seqchapampa so the Spanish cavallery should die in the mud trap which was successful on 21 November 1821 when Spanish cavallery was sent and a flight movement was simulated. As a revenge for this defeit of the best colonial Spanish cavallery in the mud the Spanish intendant Jose Domingo Carratala let attack Cangallo by Spanish troops on 17 December 1821. Cangallo was burnt and Spanish troops produced a massacre on the population shooting elder men, women and children.
After more attacks by units of Basilio Auqui the resistence movement under Auqui was coming to an end by betrayal in 1822, when the Spanish intendant Carratala set out a head money on Auqui. The traitor Quinto got the money, Aqui was captured, brought to Ayacucho and executed by shooting on Plaza de Santa Teresa at Ayacucho. There is a monument of the hero of Cangallo Morochuco resistance at the place he was shoot.
Sources
Prof. Juan Perlacios Campos: Historia; Centro Preuniversitario de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristobal de Huamanga; Ayacucho, Peru
Links
Morochuco hero Basilio Auqui of Cangallo - fight for independence (1814-1822)
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