The Acllawasi or Mamacona of Pachacamac. It was reconstructed by the archaeologist Julio C. Tello in the 1940s. According to 16th-century documents and chronicles, the first written immediately after the Spanish conquest of the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire), this was the home of the "acllas," or women chosen to work textiles or to be given as wives to rulers friendly to the Incas.