The community of Chichubamba, meaning ¨Fertile Plain¨, is located directly beside the city of Urubamba in the Sacred Valley in Peru. There are approximately 240 members of the community who make a living mainly through subsistence farmers. The community has a rich history and is documented to have existed since at least the mid 1500s, and likely earlier as Chichubamba is the location of the Tambo de Qéspiwanca, built during the reign of the Incan King Huayna Capac (1497 to 1523).

Reference was first made of the community of Chichubamba in a survey done in the year 1552. The survey stated, ¨the tombs in Q'espiwanca belong to Hauyna Capac. They are located to the side of a stream called Chicon (Tullumayo) and they were found adjacent to a field and reservoir that also belonged to the Inca.¨ Further writings by Horacio Villanueva Urtega indicated:

“On the right-hand side toward the sierra there is a town of Indians in the natural curl of this valley which is all their land. They arrived and saw the land of Quispiguanca which they called Chichobamba (lands of Urubamba). They say the finished the lands of Chichobamba of the other part of a road there are some tombs that they call Quispeguanca and was for Huayna Capac”