Blas Valera was born in Levanto, Chachapoyas, Peru, in 1545. Valera is considered to be the son of , one of the men who accompanied Pizarro in the conquest of the Inca Empire. He established himself in this city since its foundation. The mother of this outstanding Chachapoyano writer was , a native who had taken this name after being baptized. The circumstance that he was born in 1545, less than 20 years after the fall of the Inca Empire, allowed him to meet many of its prominent men and also old amautas, that transmitted and entrusted him the events that he later narrated in his works.