High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Punta Quemada, fought sometime in January 1525, was a brief but deadly encounter between a band of Spanish conquistadors and the warlike natives of Colombia, thought to be a northern tributary tribe to the Andean Kingdom of Quito, subordinate to and as well northern capital of the Inca Empire. Though it marked the end of Francisco Pizarro`s first tentative expedition along the Pacific coast, the battle also represented a crucial step to Spain`s discovery and conquest of the Inca Empire.