Wari remnants collapse in the Andes

1225

Across the Peruvian highlands, the last provincial centers of the old Wari empire were abandoned as regional polities reasserted themselves. Into the vacuum came smaller ethnic lords, the curacas, whose rivalries would eventually be unified by the Incas two centuries later. The elaborate Wari road system and hilltop administrative centers decayed slowly, their engineered terraces reclaimed by wild grasses and grazing llama herds.