Battle of Puná

Battle of Puná
	Part of the Spanish conquest of Peru
	; Battle of Puná
Date	April 1531
Location	Puná, near Guayaquil, Ecuador
Result	Spanish victory
Belligerents
Spanish Empire	Puná natives
Commanders and leaders
Francisco Pizarro; Hernando Pizarro	Tumala
Strength
168	3,000 warriors
Casualties and losses
	3-4 dead

The Battle of Puná, a peripheral engagement of Francisco Pizarro's conquest of Peru, was fought in April 1531 on the island of Puná (in the Gulf of Guayaquil) in Ecuador. Pizarro's conquistadors, boasting superior weaponry and tactical skill, decisively defeated the island's indigenous inhabitants. The battle marked the beginning of Pizarro's third and final expedition before the fall of the Inca Empire.

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