Wari in Arequipa

This chapter is a discussion of the history of the Middle Horizon period in Arequipa with special emphasis placed on the network of trails that spanned the coastal pampa and connected the sierra to the coast. We consider how Wari influence first moved through these trails and then how the trails continue to connect Arequipa together even as interregional connections waned. Wari influence was patchy in the region, reflecting local conditions and the particular routes that people took. Wari colonists arrived some two hundred years after this influence began, and their low numbers and the organization of their sites suggest that they were unlikely to have been associated with the conquest of the regional