In this article, we study the Baroque poetics of an Andean regional historian, Ventura Travada (1695-1758), a Parish priest in Indian villages in Arequipa, Viceroyalty of Peru. He was the author of El suelo de Arequipa convertido en cielo (ca. 1750), first important historio-graphical work in that Peruvian region. Travada's understanding of the historian's duties reflects a peculiar Baroque world in which erudition, literary images and mythological references, on a Neo-Platonic background, serve as unavoidable resources in a mission far beyond historiography.