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Manco Inca
Cusco, Inca Empire
Archival Overview
Emperor of the Inca who escaped Spanish confinement in 1536 to launch the Great Inca Rebellion, laying siege to Spanish-occupied Cusco with 100,000 warriors and founding the independent Neo-Inca State in the cloud forests of Vilcabamba.
Biographical Record
Manco Inca Yupanqui (c. 1516–1544) was initially installed by Francisco Pizarro as a puppet ruler. Subjected to humiliating torture by Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro, Manco escaped Cusco in April 1536, raising a massive indigenous army of 100,000 warriors that surrounded Cusco in a ferocious ten-month siege.
Using heated stones wrapped in cotton to burn Spanish-occupied thatched roofs, his general Kisu Yupanqui annihilated Spanish relief columns and besieged Lima. Retreating into the dense jungle mountains, Manco founded the Neo-Inca State of Vilcabamba, adopting horses and firearms to wage guerrilla warfare for nearly four decades.
Key Life Milestones
The Great Siege of Cusco
Besieged 200 Spanish conquistadors and thousands of native allies in Cusco for ten months with 100,000 warriors.
Establishment of the Neo-Inca State at Vilcabamba
Founded the autonomous Inca redoubt in the Amazonian cloud forests that resisted conquest until 1572.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialLa Convencion (Cusco), Peru