According to scientific data and assumptions made by scientists and scholars indigenous ancestral Toconao sector has a human-life data calculated from the wreckage and remains of 12,000-year-old remains of human development exist that exceed 10,000 years old in the higher parts (Puno) lickanantai.
The sector covers all ancient peoples lickanantai an extension of the Precordillera and Cordillera of the Andes and in the areas near the big Salar de Atacama .
Their survival was agriculture, which increased her independent spirit and remains to this day today among toconares .
During the early morning of February 13 came a avalanche in Toconao. The disaster occurred after a dam overflow near the village, the result of the seasonal rains caused by the "Bolivian winter". Within minutes a torrent of water and mud swept away several houses in the sector
