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Huayna Capac

or Huai·na Ca·pac

[ wahy-nah kah-pahk ]

noun

  1. c1450–1527?, Inca ruler of Peru 1493?–1527? (father of Atahualpa and Huascar).


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Huayna Capac had consulted them, and they answered that he would live a great while yet,—and Huayna Capac had promptly died.

The inca Huayna-Capac, father of Atahualpa, under whom this vast empire was destroyed, had done much to increase and embellish it.

I am he who has come back from the days that are dead—Vilcaroya, the son of Huayna-Capac.'

It is supported by a similar account given by Acosta, of the famous Huayna Capac.

Huayna Capac had considerably extended the Peruvian empire by the conquest of the kingdom of Quito.

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