History of Nazca

In colonial history, there were farms as the Ingenio San Juan and San Javier property of the Jesuit College of Cuzco, which were made of wood carving works, grape cultivation, wine processing for Catholic worship, and two beautiful churches in these places. In 1767 the expulsion edict of King Charles III of Spain, these properties were available to the Crown, and owned by a comendero.

Nazca Patriots received the Liberating Expedition of General Don Jose de San Martin on October 14, 1820 after the Battle of Nasca escape. Two days earlier, on October 12 General Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales, from Ica, was sent to the South, in pursuit of the royalist troops of Colonel Manuel Quimper getaways from Ica, in its second and chief of staff of the Division de la Sierra, the Argentine Manuel Rojas Argerich Lieutenant Colonel in command of 250 men: 110 infantry and 140 cavalry.

The town of Nasca was established an August 29, 1821, after that on July 2, 1855 it was elevated to district and then it became province on January 23, 1941.

Nasca, is as it is called today, is a dry, why in time of the Incas was a formidable work of hydraulic engineering, water trayento Heights in underground branches, called aqueducts, which serve to present, to irrigate farmland and for home use