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Fray Martin de Murua
Fray Martin de Murua, Spanish Dominican friar and chronicler, was a missionary in Peru during the 16th and 17th centuries, carrying out his mission in the proximities of Lake Titicaca and Cuzco, where he came to know some features of the primitive inhabitants of the Tahuantinsuyu (Inca Empire) very well. In addition to his evangelistic work, he was devoted to the task of gathering data to write a history of the Incan past which, in 1613, he entitled Historia general del Peru. It is considered Peru's earliest illustrated chronicle of its prehispanic and early post-Spanish conquest history.
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