In the Hispanic narrative of the conquest of Peru, we can identify two different yet related episodes: Pedro de Alvarado's journey to Quito in 1534 and the expedition to Chile commanded by Diego de Almagro in 1535-1536. This article discusses the echoes than can be pinpointed in the accounts of both experiences in a corpus of texts written or printed around 1550 (Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Francisco López de Gómara, Pedro Cieza de León and Agustín de Zárate). By tracing unexpected similarities and differences, this proposal discusses the importance of oral circulation of histories amongst Peruvian conquistadors. The features of conversation, as a social practice, allowed the register of an early Christian conceptualization of the Tawantinsuyu territory. Here Quito and Chile became frontier marks of the conquered space, thus enabling a superposition of these places as they were characterized by a shared set of mountain-related images.
Keywords:
oral memory, Andes, culture of conquest, Sixteenth Century
Vega, A. (2011). Experiencies of cordillera, cold echoes: crusade tales between Chile and Quito in the XVI century. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (80). Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/17822
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