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(January 2008)| Tupac Amaru, the last Inca of Vilcabamba. Cuzco,
Viceroyalty of Peru |Other names||Thupaq Amaru|
|Relatives||Manco Inca (father)| Following the Spanish conquest
of the Inca Empire in the 1530s, a few members of the royal
family established a small independent state in Vilcabamba, in
the relatively inaccessible Upper Amazon to the northeast of
Cusco. The founder of this so-called Neo-Inca state was Manco
Inca Yupanqui (also known as Manco Cápac II), who had initially
allied himself with the Spanish, then led an unsuccessful war
against them before establishing himself in Vilcabamba in 1540.
After a Spanish attack in 1544 in which Manco Inca Yupanqui was
killed, his son Sayri Tupac assumed the title of Sapa Inca
(emperor, literally "only Inca"), before accepting Spanish
authority in 1558, moving to Cuzco, and dying (perhaps by
poison) in 1561. He was succeeded in Vilcabamba by his brother
Titu Cusi, who himself died in 1571. Túpac Amaru