Colonization from the South

In the 1500s, the early conquistadors of Peru found that only traditions existed as to where the ancient Tiahuanaco people of the Lake Titicaca region in Peru came from. By the time of the Inca, the history of these ancient people was clouded in the mystery of antiquity.

Brinton, Squier, Maudslay, Garcilasso de la Vega, Cieza de Leon, and Salcamayhua all claimed in their various writings, that all nations of Peru came from the south, and settled in the regions as they advanced northward. Molina had the same tradition, Montesinos mentioned a great invasion from the south during the time the 62nd king of Peru was reigning. On this point of coming from the south there is practically complete unanimity among all historians that all of Peru was settled by peoples coming from the south (Clements Robert Markham, The Incas of Peru, Dutton, NY, 1910, p 31-32)

For more information on the movement of the Nephites from their first landing site in the south along the coast of the West Sea into the North, see my book, “Lehi Never Saw Mesoamerica.” And for the movement of Nephites from the Andean area into Mesoamerica, see my book "Who Really Settled Mesoamerica."