The last Sapa Inca to ascend the throne before Spanish contact, Huayna Capac, grandson of famed emperor Pachacuti, survived ...

By the time the Inca king Huayna Capac took power around 1493, little seemed beyond the reach of the Inca dynasty. To bring grandeur to his new capital in Ecuador, Huayna Capac put more than 4,500 ...

Begin at the Independence Square, where, alongside the Presidential Palace stands the Metropolitan Cathedral and Archbishop’s Palace. In front of the center of the square is the Monumento a la ...

Inca ruler Huayna Capac (1493-1527), for instance, passed power not only to his son Huáscar, whose mother was Capac's wife and sister, but also to his son Atahualpa, whose mother was apparently a ...

belonging to the Inca kingdom and also granddaughter of Inca Tupac Yupanqui and niece of Huayna Capac. When he reached adulthood, he decided to change his name to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in ...