This presentation challenges us to tell histories of colonialism and imperialism that de-center the Inka and the Spanish Empires. Carla explores the role of existing memory and practices among local communities in the Peruvian province of Huarochirí in transforming both places and movement within the idealized constructions of landscapes imposed by Inka bureaucrats and Spanish colonial officials. During the Inka period, the broad narratives of linked sacred landscapes existing within regional systems that well preceded the Empire. During the Spanish colonial era, Indigenous Andeans claimed communal lands and insisted on the locations of new Catholic churches despite forced relocations and labor demands.