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Manco Inca

Manco Inca

Manqu Inka Yupanki

Sapa Inca · Leader of the Vilcabamba resistance

1516 – 1544

Biography

Half-brother of Huáscar and Atahualpa, installed by Pizarro as a puppet Sapa Inca after Atahualpa's execution. Within two years he had escaped, rallied an army of perhaps two hundred thousand, and besieged Cuzco for ten months in 1536–1537. Forced to retreat, he established a redoubt state in the cloud forest at Vilcabamba, from which his successors continued to resist Spanish rule for another thirty years.

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