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This is a legal process from 1556, following the distribution of land to the Spanish encomenderos Juan Polo de Ondegardo and Rodrigo de Orellana, against the Indians of Paria (Carangas), who expressed their disagreement with the distribution. Their defence is based on the landmarks and distributions made by the Inca Huayna Kapac, who divided by "suyos" (parcels of land of equal size) to related ethnic groups, in terms of origin and cultures, avoiding inter-ethnic friction in the Bolivian altiplano region, as well as in the Peruvian, Ecuadorian, northern Chilean and Argentinean regions. The administrative policy of managing the Inca state through the mitimaes, i.e., control by sending "settlers" to other different ecological zones to have access to complementary resources, whether economic or military, is evident. If there was a similar practice (as in the Tiwanacu culture) in a time long before the Inca state, under the Inca Huayna Kapac applied and imposed the transfer of land on a large scale to families and populations from different regions, toward the Cochabamba valley, to produce corn destined for the Inca, the Sun God and other populations of the empire. The process demonstrates the scope and evolution of the Tawantinsuyo in the last period of Inca rule, which reveals the organizational dimensions and military expansion into the Amazon region. 

This document (Royal Decree) is part of a 1575 file in which Viceroy Francisco de Toledo of Spain, who resided in Lima and exercised power from the Audience of La Plata, ordered the legal resolution of the conflict. This primary source, one of the few records of the early colonial period, is of great importance for ethnohistorical studies and research in Latin America.