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La Paz, east of the Cordillera Real), Chicanoma
(Chicaloma is a modern town in Sur Yungas province,
La Paz department), and Capinota (western Cochabamba
department) (Diez de San Miguel 1964:14,17,27,203;
modern departments and correspondences supplied).

According to the Relaciones geogrdficas de Indias
(colonial geographic reports), the Pacaxe (sic) also had
colonies interspersed among those of the Lupaca near
the Pacific coast (Jiménez de la Espada 1881:1.338).

The only detailed information so far available
as to the size of any Aymara-speaking population during
the colonial period is also for the Lupaca. The earliest
figures date from the visita general of 1549 which gave
a total of 18,032 heads of household in Chucuito province
(Diez de San Miguel 1964:202-203). The 1567 visita
found a total of 63,012 persons, children and adults,
of whom 15,047 were Urus; the figure of 63,012 was said
to include the population of the Chucuito colonies
mentioned above. Of the total, 15,404 were identified
as taxpayers. The principal cacique of the province,
Martin Cari, claimed an additional 5,000 taxpayers,
but Diez de San Miguel disputed this claim, saying that
the original figure of 15,404 already included ‘many
Indians that the said caciques and heads of ayllus
declared they had in Potosf and La Paz and the province

of Charcas and other parts of these Kingdoms' (Diez de