Pachacuti
Historical Figure

Pachacuti

Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire

About Pachacuti

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, also called Pachacútec, was the ninth Sapa Inca of the Chiefdom of Cusco, which he transformed into the Inca Empire. Most archaeologists now believe that the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was built as an estate for Pachacuti.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.