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History
 They were the Maca along with quinua, the Pope, and the meat of the camelidaes, the daily subsistence of seasoned the Pumpush. (Archaeologist Ramiro Matos).With the Incaico Empire, according to the chronicles it was a considered food as SACRED it were destined specially for the incaica royalty, in addition which it was fed the troops of the Inca with Maca, because it offered to vitality and physical force to the soldiers, in this period the Maca was cultivated in all the plateau of Junín, to be sent to the Cusco like tribute of the Pumpush to the Incanato.
Later with the Spanish conquest, it was the favorite food of the Spanish crown, as it consists in the file of Indians, where every year is indicated the payment of tributes in Maca with Fanegas of Maca, which they were sent from Peru. |
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Tribute
Here is important to make a tribute and to stand out, that this history had not continued of not being by the cultural resistance of the inhabitants del plateau of Junín, of which now they are the Provinces of Junín and Cerro de Pasco, with its annexed Districts and like: Ondores, Palomayo, Acomarca, Tacrón, Carhuamayo, Huayre, Uco, Paccha, San Blas, San Pedro de Pari, Rispanga, Pampas Victory, Huamanripa, Corina Pampas, San Pedro de Cajas (Tarma), Sasicucho, Huarmipuquio, Villa de Pasco, Vicco, Ninacaca, etc. All surrounding to the Majestic Chinchaycocha Lake or Lake of Junín.
Cultural Resistance We say, because of these men continued seeding by centuries, in small parcels or tarpus of Maca, of this food because they knew in the collective memory with the transmitted years of generation in generation, of the virtues and qualities without equal of this food as well as they conserved the rites and traditions of its sowing, of its culture, of its consumption, customs such as: of the "barbecheo", of the "curpeo", "to do it toots it", of "seedtime to the boleo", "doing to step on it with the cattle" "on its harvest" "huatias" and of its storage and consumption like maca drought, etc. and it to have transmitted to the present time, where already all recognize the virtues of this superior food, and they reverencing to its Majesty "MACA, THE QUEEN OF THE ANDES ". |
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