Anales de Puno: The Historical Archive That Churata Left Us to Undertake a Rewriting of the History of Puno

One of the lesser-known works by Gamaliel Churata when he signed as Arturo Peralta is the manuscript of the Anales de Puno, preserved in the Municipal Library of Puno. This is a short text written between 1922 and 1924 with the purpose of recording the life of the municipality of Puno during those years. This article argues that the Anales de Puno constitutes a valuable (and unknown) historical archive that, in addition to offering innovative information on the history of Puno, contributes to a better understanding of Peru at the beginning of the 20th century, when the indigenous question was the largest national dispute, and in the Southern Andes an autonomous indigenous leadership emerged. The article also proposes that any historical or literary research aiming to generate knowledge about the cultural history of Puno will enrich its scope with a study of the historical archive that Churata left in the Anales of Puno.