Huayna Capac

Huayna Capac
Sapa Inca (11th)
Huayna Capac, drawn by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. The title, in Poma de Ayala's nonstandard spelling, reads: El onceno inga Guainacapac, "The Eleventh Inca, Guayna Capac".
Reign	1493–1525
Predecessor	Topa Inca Yupanqui
Successor	Huáscar
Consort	Coya Cusirimay, Araua Ocllo
Issue	Ninan Cuyochi, Huáscar, Atahualpa, Topa Huallpa, Manco Inca Yupanqui, General , Paullu Inca, and Quispe Sisa, and others
Full name Huayna Capac
Quechua	Wayna Qhapaq
Dynasty	Hanan
Father	Topa Inca Yupanqui
Mother	Mama Ocllo Coya

Huayna Capac, Huayna Cápac, Guayna Capac (in hispanicized spellings) or Wayna Qhapaq (Quechua wayna young, young man, qhapaq the mighty one, "the young mighty one") (1464/1468–1525) was the third Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire, sixth of the Hanan dynasty, and eleventh of the Inca civilization. His original name was Tito Husi Hualpa. He was the successor to Topa Inca Yupanqui.

The exact date of Huayna Capac's birth is unknown; it may have been in 1468, most probably in Tumebamba (modern Cuenca) where he also may have spent part of his childhood. He was the son of Topa Inca. Topa Inca (ruled 1471-1493) had extended Inca rule north into present-day Ecuador, a process continued by Huayna Capac.

Huayna Capac's legitimate wife and full sister was Coya Cusirimay. The couple produced no male heirs, but Huayna Capac sired more than 50 sons with other women. Huayna Capac took another sister, Araua Ocllo, as his royal wife; they had a son called Tupac Cusi Hualpa, also known as Huáscar. Other children included Ninan Cuyochi, Atahualpa, Túpac Huallpa, Manco Inca Yupanqui, General , Paullu Inca, and Quispe Sisa. Many of them later once held the title of Sapa Inca, although some were installed by the Spaniards.

Since he was a "boy chief" or "boy sovereign", he had a tutor, Hualpya, nephew of Inca Yupanqui. This tutor's plot to assume the Incaship, was discovered by the Governor Huaman Achachi, who had Hualpya killed.

Huayna Capac extended the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire) significantly to the south into present-day Chile and Argentina and tried to annex territories towards the north, in what is now Ecuador and southern Colombia.