Historical Figure

Huayna Capac

Eleventh Sapa Inca

About Huayna Capac

Huayna Capac was the eleventh Sapa Inca of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca Empire. He was the son of and successor to Túpac Inca Yupanqui, the sixth Sapa Inca of the Hanan dynasty, and eleventh of the Inca civilization. He was born in Tumipampa and tutored to become Sapa Inca from a young age.Wikipedia ↗

Associated Events

Kingdom1438 CE – 1533 CE

Inca Empire

The Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, stretching roughly 4,000 km along the Andes with an extraordinary road network, terraced agriculture, and a sophisticated administrative system that used quipu (knotted strings) for record-keeping instead of writing.