Biography about atahualpa

Last Inca Emperor (ruled 1532–1533)

This article is about the Inca emperor. For a mountain in the Cusco Region, Peru, see Atawallpa (Cusco).

Biography about atahualpa

For the Bolivian province, see Atahuallpa Province. For the merchant ship, see Atahualpa (ship).

Atahualpa (), also Atawallpa or Ataw Wallpa (Quechua) (c. 1502 – 26 July 1533),^[2][a] was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in July of the following year, as part of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

Biography

Atahualpa was the son of the emperor Huayna Cápac, who died around 1525 along with his successor, Ninan Cuyochi, in a smallpox epidemic.

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Atahualpa initially accepted his half-brother Huáscar as the new emperor, who in turn appointed him as governor of Quito in the north of the empire. The uneasy peace between them deteriorated over the next few years. From 1529 to 1532, they contested the succession in the Inca Civil War,