Occupation of the Upper Huallaga by colonists
Since the early 1950s, the Alto Huallaga was intensively occupied by settlers and migrants from the highlands, encouraged by state colonization projects and the scarcity of land in the Andean zone. The State promoted this colonization by focusing on stimulating individual production.
The Alto Huallaga area was occupied with greater intensity since the beginning of the 1950s by settlers and migrants coming mainly from the highlands of Huánuco, Huancayo, Junín and Cerro de Pasco. These settlers were encouraged, most of the time, by the State through colonization projects (such as Tingo María-Tocache-Campanilla), and other times on their own initiative, forced into massive displacements due to the acute shortage of land in the Andean zone. The State's concern focused on stimulating individual production. These conditions encouraged a good number of colonists to settle in the Upper Huallaga, which was not completely free of some conflicts due to the heterogeneous population of the colonists and the different roles they assumed.