Túpac Amaru , was last truth INCA Quechua of the dynasty of Manco INCA. It succeeded his brother Titu Kusi Yupanqui, died of a strange disease. He is the son of Manco INCA.

He was young person and inexperienced but was an enemy relentless of the Conquistador S. Of a spirit rebels, in opposition to the weak character of his brother, Spanish decided his capture and sent a troop of almost 300 soldiers directed by Martin Hurtado de Arbieto and Martin Garcia Oñaz de Loyola. They arrived at Vilcabamba, but the INCA had fled in the jungle with its family. They continued it, and finally captured it with its partisans, and took it along to Cuzco.

After a rapid judgment, he was condemned to died and quartered on the great place with Cuzco, the September 24th 1572. Its skin rests in the church Santo Domingo of Lima.

His/her niece Beatriz Coya , heiress of the Marquis de Oropesa, married Martin Garcia Oñaz de Loyola.

Its name means in Quechua brilliant snake .

See too

• Tupamaros, urban guerillas Marxist in Uruguay.

• Tupac Amaru, terrorist revolutionary movement.
• Túpac Amaru II: leader of an indigenous revolutionary movement in Peru in 1780.
• Tupac Amaru: The Revolt of Incas, a book of Gerard Herzhaft.