San Martín de Chacas is a Peruvian town,[1] capital of the eponymous district and the Asunción Province, located in the east-central region of Ancash.

The city is characterized for having remained unchanged over the original Andean-Andalusian architecture, with narrow streets, houses adorned with double water carved balconies and gates, made by craftsmen Don Bosco, whom Fr.

Ugo de Censi, Operation Mato Grosso (with Chacas as a hub) and Italian residents for thirty years, took charge of rebuilding the shrine Mama Ashu and restoration of the baroque altarpiece dating from the 17th century.

There are two versions about the meaning of the name: Chacas district is located in the eastern slope of the White Mountains in the buffer zone of the Huascarán National Park.

The most important streams are used by towns to ensure water supplies for irrigation and human consumption are: to the east, Rayan, west and south the Camchas the Juitush.

The disintegration of the powerful Wari empire, different nations united by raza, language, customs, religion, organized themselves into kingdoms was a time of war between these groups, which turned into surrender in small towns to large estates, so formed the nation of the Conchucos, composed of numerous tribes in the territory now occupied by the provinces Huari, Antonio Raimondi, Fitzcarraldo, Asunción, Pomabamba, Mariscal Luzuriaga, Sihuas, Corongo, Pallasca.

The kingdoms of Huaylas (western slope of the Cordillera Blanca) and were incorporated into Tawantinsuyu Conchucos, after a bloody invasion of the Inca Pachacuti, mission fulfilled his brother, General Qhapaq Yupanqui.

The founding act took place in April 1572, during the festive month of San Martín I, who would be the patron saint of the town located in the domains of the huari curaca Francisco Tocto de Chagastunán San José de Mushuqmarka: Founded in 1716, it was the largest mill of the present territory of Asunción for 60 years, owned by Captain Juan Tafur mining of Cordova, which operated mines of Caxavilca, Kellayruna, Chucpin, Huiro and others founded the chaplaincy of Mushuqmarka in 1718, before Don Gabriel Mechado de Castro, chief justice and lieutenant-general of the Province of Conchucos, awarding of the said goods grinding mill metals to their alfalfa and grain mill mol.

During the process of independence of Peru, Chacas contributed a considerable number of men to the ranks of the liberating armies, among these it is worth highlighting the actions of the Chacasino priest Tadeo Gómez Alvarado,43 who fulfilled ecclesiastical functions in Huarmey, who joined a guerrilla group.

In 1837, Francisco Aráoz de La Madrid, Argentine hero of the Independence of Peru, who, already retired from military life, held the position of Governor of the Province of Conchucos, died in Chacas.

The zenith of mining activity began in the 1860s, in a commercial context conditioned by the high demand for metals in European and American industries, which led numerous foreign investors to settle in this area of Áncash.

The religious noted the inequality gap between some residents, landowners and mining businessmen and the rural population, who lived in extreme poverty and abandoned their lands to migrate to cities in search of better opportunities.

Chavín de Huántar, Paucartambo, Pozuzo and Taquile were also selected by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), after passing a strict evaluation that considered nine areas.