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Chucuito, district of the Province of Puno, located to the south of it, emerged into political life as a district at the time of Independence, being created on April 2, 1564, later the district of Chucuito was created under law No. 12301 dated May 3, 1955. The most remote inhabitants of Chucuito and its surroundings were hunters for more than 10,000 years BC. of .c. The most remote settlers of Chucuito and its surroundings were hunters for more than 10 thousand years a. of .c., of the ancient inhabitants



Rescue the remains of ceramics and monoliths from the Caluyo period (1,000 years BC) as the ceremonial center of Tunihuiri of the State of Pucará, Chucuito was part of the Tiahuanaco and was the seat of the government of the entire Lupaca Kingdom of Aymara tradition, from the year 900 a. of c. approximately, covering its influence to the valleys of Moquegua, Tacna and the Bolivian Altiplano; the Incas Pachacutec and Túpac Yupanqui established and consolidated the Inka empire; and Mayta Capac managed to remodel the city of Chucuito with palaces and ceremonial centers.

The first Spaniards who arrived in the capital of the Lupacas were Diego de Agüero and Pedro Martínez de Moguer, in January 1533, who managed to extract a large quantity of gold pieces from Lake Chucuito, a part of which was destined for the rescue of the Inka. Atahualpa; in 1535, the armies of Diego de Almagro and Paulo Inka occupied Chucuito and sacked various towns in the highlands; In September 1546, the first Dominican priest arrived, Melchor de Molina, who was replaced by A. De Santo Domingo and Domingo de Santa Cruz in 1547; in 1548, the Viceroy la Gasca, appointed Diego de Mercado as a royal official of Chucuito and in 1550 fixed the taxation for the inhabitants of the province of Chuchito; between 1551 and 1555, Pedro Enciso was Corregidor de Chucuito and between 1557 and 1560 García Diez de San Miguel, the authorities of Chucuito; On April 2, 1564, they moved to the Village of Juli to establish the convent of San Pedro and the Santo Tómas de Aquino Church, to serve as a center for the Catechization of the Indians, when said acts concluded, on April 5 they returned to Chucuito to celebrate the day of San Vicente de Ferrer, when it had more than 29 years of Spanish life as a city and 25 years of having been declared Commandery of King Carlos V of Spain.



The province of Chuquito is one of the 13 provinces that make up the Department of Puno, belonging to the Puno Region. It limits to the north with the province of Yunguyo and Lake Titicaca, to the east and south with Bolivia, and to the west with the province of El Collao. It has an area of ​​3,978.13 square kilometers and is divided into seven districts: Desaguadero, Huacullani, Juli, Kelluyo, Pisacoma, Pomata, Zepita. The capital is the city of Juli







Chucuito, known as the city of royal boxes, is characterized by its archaeological remains found in that city, such as La Cruz Misionera, green in color that is attached to the wall of the temple. in the atrium is located the Cross of Catechesis, carved in stone and with the effigies of the Virgin Mary and the Apostle John; Next to it the work of indoctrination of the indigenous population was carried out in order to be baptized, being the most significant monument of evangelization, we also find in the main square of Chuchito, the sundial that marks the time according to the surplus that covers its lower part, the famous temple of fertility where various stones are sown as virile organs and the fish farm where trout are raised, this population is not alien to the Christian faith and has as its patron the "Virgin of the Rosary" who venerate in the month of October, accompanied by the traditional bullfighting afternoon, and celebrate their patronal feast, ´´Virgen del Rosario ”as well as having an attractive bullfighting evening with experienced bullfighters.

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