Pizarro and the conquest of Peru

In 1522, the Pascual Alavés de Andagoya was authorized by Pedrarias Dávila to sail along the South Sea, discovered by Núñez de Balboa a decade earlier, in the direction of the Levante. On his journey, he arrived in the Gulf of San Miguel and from there, passed to the province of Chochama, whose inhabitants informed him that each full moon, canoes arrived to make war. Upon his return to Panama, Andagoya gave the first news of a land that was supp…