days of quarantine, the
settlers took a ship to the port of Huacho, where their belongings were put on
mules and men had to continue the journey on foot while women and children were
given donkeys to ride on. The journey went from Huancho to Cerro de Pasco,
Acobamba and Santa Cruz. On the way, some of the settlers left the group. In
1858, the male settlers travelled from Santa Cruz to Pozuzo to partition the
lands and sow enough so they would be able to live off their crops once their
families arrived. Finally, in 1859 a group of 170 people moved permanently to
Pozuzo.
In 1891, when things were better, a group of colonists from
Pozuzo founded the city of Oxapampa (now the capital of the province of same
name) and then the town of Villa Rica (both South of Pozuzo)
