Toqua (Cherokee: ᏙᏉ, romanized: Toquo) was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern Woodlands.

The site's Mississippian occupation may have been recorded by the Spanish as the village of Tali, which was documented in 1540 by the Hernando de Soto expedition.

The Hernando de Soto expedition (1539–1543) most likely passed through the upper Tennessee Valley en route to the Coosa chiefdom in northern Georgia.

The chief of Tali continued to send rations of sofkee (a gruel similar to hominy grits) and other food until the expedition reached Coosa chiefdom on July 16.

[6] The term Toqua first appears in the historical record in 1751, when it was listed as the base of an English colonial trader named Anthony Dean.

[8] In the late 1790s, the Duke of Orleans (and future king of France) Louis-Philippe visited the Tellico Blockhouse as part of extensive travels undertaken while he was in exile.

Louis-Philippe reported a councilhouse surrounded by 8 to 10 houses at a site some 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the blockhouse, at what would have been the approximate location of Toqua.

Shortly after the treaty, an early settler named John McGhee purchased several thousand acres along the Little Tennessee, including the Toqua site.

McGhee's descendants, along with many other families, still owned properties in the mid-20th century, when the Tennessee Valley Authority began buying the land in the 1960s in order to construct a dam and Tellico Reservoir.

In the 1930s, a treasure hunter named George Barnes uncovered hundreds of human bones— most of which he discarded— while digging for artifacts at the Toqua site.

[13] Along with revealing the village's layout, the excavation uncovered 477 confirmed human burials, 212 whole or partial ceramic vessels, and several thousand stone artifacts.

Excavations at the mound discovered a chert sword, a pot filled with marsh elder seeds, and two high-status female burials.

A typical Mississippian-period dwelling at the Toqua site consisted of 400 square feet (37 m2) of living space, a central hearth, storage areas, and interior partitions.

The village was superseded by rising Dallas phase occupations at Tomotley (almost adjacent to Toqua) and Citico (several miles upstream).