Tupac Amaru
Amaru, Túpac, the last emperor of the
Inca people (1571-1572). Túpac Amaru was executed in 1572 in
Cusco, Peru, by Spanish colonial officials. He is sometimes known as
the Fourth Inca of Vilcabamba, and was the fourth son of the Inca emperor
Manco Capac. Túpac Amaru is a symbol of indigenous resistance
to Spanish domination, which goes far beyond his importance in the history
of the Inca Empire.
The word Inca means "prince" or "king" in the language
of the Quechua people of Peru and the name was used by the Spaniards
to refer to them. The word Inca also applies to each supreme ruler of
that empire, and, broadly, to all subject peoples of the Inca Empire.
After the conquest of Cusco and the Inca Empire in 1533, the Spaniards
sought to maintain the appearance of an Inca monarchy in order to make
it easier to govern Peru. Manco Capac was crowned as the Inca in 1533
by the Spaniards, who assumed he would follow their orders. He governed
peacefully for two years but then led a major rebellion against Spanish
rule that included a failed attack on Lima and an unsuccessful siege
of Cusco. He established a permanent Inca settlement in the province
of Vilcabamba, an area about 50 km (about 30 mi) northwest of Cusco
along the Urubamba River. After Manco Capac died in 1545, his four sons
governed the Inca people in succession. Túpac Amaru, the fourth
son, ascended to the throne in 1571. The new Spanish viceroy of Peru,
Francisco de Toledo, sought to eliminate the remnants of the Inca Empire
that remained in Vilcabamba. In 1572 a column of Spanish soldiers and
their Native American allies overran the Vilcabamba empire and captured
Túpac Amaru and his followers. He was returned to Cusco, where
he was tried and sentenced to death. He was decapitated in the town's
central plaza on November 14, 1572, in full view of thousands of Native
American and Spanish onlookers.
Túpac Amaru has become a powerful symbol of resistance in Latin
America. The 18th-century Peruvian rebel, José Gabriel Condorcanqui
adopted the name Túpac Amaru II and led a two-year rebellion
in the 1780s against Spanish colonial rule. The Tupamaros, a Uruguayan
revolutionary group active in the 1970s, and also the Túpac Amaru
Revolutionary Movement, a guerrilla group that has been active in Peru
since the early 1980s, have both associated their contemporary movements
with Túpac Amaru.
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