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Topa Inca Yupanqui or Túpac Inca Yupanqui (Quechua: Tupa Inka Yupanki ~ Thupaq Inka Yupanki), [1] also Topa Inga Yupangui, erroneously translated as "noble Inca accountant" (before 1471 – 1493) was the tenth Sapa Inca (1471–93) of the Inca Empire, fifth of the Hanan dynasty.
During the period of Pachacuti and Túpac Yupanqui, the Cusco domain reached Quito, to the north, and to the Maule River, to the south, culturally integrating the inhabitants of 4500 km of mountain ranges. It is also believed that the original design of the city is the work of Pachacuti.
He also killed his sons Tilca Yupanqui and Auqui Yupanqui. [59] Some ethno-historians however think that Capac Yupanqui was the co-ruler or Huauque (lit. "brother") of Pachacuti. [18] Amaru Topa was originally chosen to be the co-regent and eventual successor. Pachacuti later chose Tupac Inca because Amaru was not competent in military affairs.
This legend was told by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, a mestizo chronicler who was a descendant of Tupac Yupanqui on his mother's side. The Sun , seeing the state in which the men lived, took pity on them and sent his son, named Manco Capac , and a daughter, named Mama Ocllo , to civilize the inhabitants of the earth.
[1] [2] His wife's name was Mama Runtu, and their sons included Inca Roca, Tupac Yupanqui, Pachakuti and Capac Yupanqui. His original name was Hatun Tupaq Inca, but he was named after creator deity Wiraqucha after seeing visions of the god in Urcos. With Curi chulpa, he had two additional sons, Inca Urco and Inca Socso.
Millions of Central- and South Americans died in that epidemic including Huayna's brother, Auqui Tupac Inca, and Huayna's would-be successor and eldest son, Ninan Cuyochi. According to some sources, his sons Atahualpa and Huáscar were granted two separate realms of Tawantinsuyu: to his favorite Atahualpa the northern portion centered on Quito ...
Diego Sayri Thupa Yupanki (1535/39 – 1561) was an Inca ruler in Peru.He was a son of siblings Manco Inca Yupanqui and Cura Ocllo. [1]: 10 After the death of his mother in 1539 and of his father in 1544, both at the hands of Spanish conquerors, he became the ruler of the Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba.
Although Tupac doesn't yet know whom this is, he takes an interest in the case and together with Ollantay goes to the Acllahuasi. There they find a woman with very long hair and a ghostly appearance that Tupac finally recognizes as his sister in a moment of anagnorisis. Cusi Coyllur tells her story, and a magnanimous Tupac Yupanqui frees her ...