 The maize crop from Cochabamba to the east passed through Paria en route to Cuzco or was stored in Paria.Later in the 1520s, soldiers to serve in the Inca military campaigns in the northern Andes gathered in Paria before their journey north.Paria was located on the royal road (Camino Real) of the Inca which stretched from Quito in the North to the Maule River in present-day Chile.