Yupanqui

However, the third chief, going backwards, was also called Yupanqui, sometimes denominated "Yupanqui the Great," and his reign (?) takes us back to about the year 1400.

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Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (or Pachacutec) was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438-1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cuzco, which he transformed into the Inca Empire called Tawantinsuyu.

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He eventually picked up a guitar, singing in the manner of his idol, Argentine folklorist Atahualpa Yupanqui.

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In Quechua, the language of the Incas, Pachakutiq means "He who shakes the Earth," and Yupanqui means "with honor".

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In Quechua, the language of the Incas, Pachakutiq means "He who shakes the Earth," and Yupanqui means "with honor".

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Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (or Pachacutec) was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438-1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cuzco, which he transformed into the Inca Empire called Tawantinsuyu.

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His son Topa Inca Yupanqui took Ecuador and left his heir at Tumibamba.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The son of Yupanqui, he explained, was Huayna Capac, the Inca responsible for expanding the empire into what is today southern Colombia.

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Some years after I first visited Cuzco, I spent a month engaged in ethnobotanical work with several colleagues in the small village of Chinchero, fifteen miles by road from the ancient capital and the site of the summer palace of Topa Inca Yupanqui.

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Subsequent campaigns by Pachacuti and his son Topa Inca Yupanqui extended the empire north into Ecuador.

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