Tinya palla (Quechua tinya a kind of drum, palla dame, lady, mature woman of the Inca nobility / a Peruvian folk dance with women representing Inca princesses)[1] [2] or wiqru palla (Quechua wiqru twisted, bent)[1] is a traditional dance of the Pomabamba Province in the Ancash Region in Peru.[3] In 2009 the National Institute of Culture declared tinya palla a National Cultural Heritage of Peru by Resolución Directoral Nacional No. 491/INC-2009.[4]