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22-645: The airport was named after Inca Manco Cápac , founder of the Inca civilization in Cusco . The airport is currently served by the following airlines: This article about an airport in Peru is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Manco C%C3%A1pac Manco Cápac (before c.  1200  – c.  1230 ; Quechua : Manqu Qhapaq , "the royal founder"), also known as Manco Inca and Ayar Manco , was, according to some historians,

44-479: A god amongst the Incas by displaying his power of matter manipulation. In British author Anthony Horowitz 's fantasy-thriller book series The Power of Five , Manco Cápac is the son of Inti, and one of five children destined to keep the universe safe from the forces of evil. Cápac is reincarnated in the 21st century as a Peruvian street beggar called Pedro. Kuzco, the main character from Emperor's New Groove , in

66-583: A member of the Hurin dynasty (first dynasty). Said to have been the son of two of the original Inca siblings, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo , whom they conceived in Huaynacancha. He was Manco Capac's successor and continued the rule after his father's death. The father of Lloque Yupanqui . His wife was Mama Cura, of the lineage Sanu, daughter of Sitic-huaman. They had a son named Sapaca . Manco Capac, Mama Huaco, Sinchi Rocca, and Manco Sapaca erected

88-485: A multicoloured braid "of extremely fine vicuña wool ", wrapped several times around the head. The mascapaicha was the mark of absolute imperial power, to the point that "to take" or "to gird the mascapaicha" or "to claim the scarlet fringe" was the periphrase in use to signify the coming of the new emperor or Sapa Inca, during a ceremony where he received it from the hands of the Willaq Umu, the high priest or pontiff of

110-405: A sign of nobility. The 16th century Spanish writers, including Cabello de Balboa quoted by María Rostworowski, also affirm that Sinchi Roca would have been the first Inca to use Mascapaicha or Maskaypacha ( Quechua : Mask'ay seek; Pacha land, world, or space-time), which would become the distinctive sign of Inca sovereignty. Among the Incas, the imperial crown was composed of several elementsː

132-459: A swampy area between two small streams, that today corresponds with the main plaza of the city of Cusco . The recently founded city was divided into four districts; Chumbicancha, Quinticancha, Sairecancha and Yarambuycancha. Manco Cápac's tribe, or ayllu, only occupied a small fraction of the Cusco valley, the rest of it being inhabited by larger and more powerful tribes, who often would threaten

154-402: A wacanqui (amulet of love), and the shepherd confessed, in turn, that he had received such an object from a demon in a cave. The chronicler Pedro Cieza de León states that Sinchi Roca built terraces and imported enormous quantities of soil in order to improve the fertility of the valley. Sinchi came to be used as the title for a warlord , while Cápac , one of his father's names, became

176-622: Is mentioned in several chronicles, his actual existence remains uncertain. Manco Cápac was born in Tamputoco, which according to some is located in the present-day province of Paruro , in Peru . The city usually served as a refuge for many people escaping the Aymaran invasions of the Altiplano . His father was named Apu Tambo . Manco Cápac and his family lived a nomadic lifestyle. After

198-593: The House of the Sun. The Kingdom of Cuzco later became Tahuantinsuyu (Inca empire) under the rule of Pachacuti . In one of the Inca foundation myths , Sinchi Roca led his family to the valley of Cuzco. He is said to have created a territorial division of his domains and is considered to be the initiator of the first census of the Inca population. He also ordered all members of his ethnic group (Inca) to pierce their ears as

220-598: The Inca Empire (2020) ISBN   9781005592318 Sinchi Roca Sinchi Roca , Sinchi Rocca , Cinchi Roca (in Hispanicized spellings), Sinchi Ruq'a or Sinchi Ruq'a Inka ( Quechua for "valorous generous Inca ") ( c.  1230  – c.  1260 ) was the second Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco (beginning around 1230 CE, though as early as 1105 CE according to some) and

242-444: The Inca religion. One of the stories told about Sinchi Roca was that during his reign a llama shepherd had entered his house and took a young woman whom he cherished very well. The Inca then had them captured and tortured him to tell why he had committed such a sin; the young woman, not wanting to see the villager tortured anymore, revealed that she had fallen in love with the llamamichi (shepherd of llamas) as soon as he saw him wearing

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264-421: The city. Located north of the city there was a confederated lordship of Ayarmacas and Pinaguas. All these tribes regarded Manco Cápac and his ayllu as invaders, and would often attack them. Manco Cápac, and later his son and successor Sinchi Roca , would often have to defend the city against the other tribes. Manqu Qhapaq died of a natural death and left his son, Sinchi Roca, as his successor in Cusco. His body

286-604: The death of his father, Manco Capac had to succeed him as the head of the ayllu , to which belonged several dozens of families. The members of the ayllu were nomads, and the trajectory of their journeys through the Altiplano resembles the journey described in the legend of the Ayar brothers. Upon arriving in the Cusco valley, they defeated three small tribes that lived there; the Sahuares, Huallas and Alcahuisas, and then settled in

308-490: The earth, they traveled to Cusco via caves and there built a temple in honour of their father Inti However, given the absence of a written tradition recounting this tale before the publication of Comentarios Reales de los Incas by Garcilaso de la Vega in the year 1609, the authenticity of this legend as a legitimate Incan legend is questioned. The Son of the Sun (1987), the first Scrooge McDuck comic book story written and drawn by Don Rosa , features Manco Cápac as

330-420: The first governor and founder of the Inca civilization in Cusco , possibly in the early 13th century. He is also a main figure of Inca mythology , being the protagonist of the two best known legends about the origin of the Inca, both of them connecting him to the foundation of Cusco. His main wife was his older sister, Mama Uqllu , also the mother of his son and successor Sinchi Ruq'a . Even though his figure

352-483: The first version of the movie Kingdom of the Sun was supposed to be named Manco Cápac. The car float Manco Capac operates across Lake Titicaca between PeruRail 's railhead at Puno and the port of Guaqui in Bolivia . Soriano, Waldemar Esponoza (1990). Los Incas. Economia, Sociedad Y Estado En La Era Del Tahuantinsuyo . Amaru Editores. ISBN   84-7090-300-4 . Pugh, Helen Intrepid Dudettes of

374-463: The golden staff, thought to have been given to Manco Cápac by his father. Accounts vary, but according to some versions of the legend, the Manco got rid of his three brothers, trapping them or turning them into stone, thus becoming the leader of Cusco. He married his older sister, Mama Occlo, and they begot a son named Sinchi Roca . In this second legend, Manco Cápac was a son of the sun god Inti and

396-401: The mascapaicha, the most important, was a fringe of red wool, ordered on the forehead because each of its strands "passed through a small tube of gold". Above this fringe were two or three black and white feathers of the sacred bird Korekenke (or Andean mountain caracara ). This fringe and feathers were secured on the forehead by a turban or headband known as the llautu or llauto consisting of

418-450: The moon goddess Mama Killa , and brother of Pacha Kamaq . Manco Cápac himself was worshipped as a fire and a Sun God . According to the Inti legend, Manco Cápac and his siblings were sent up to the earth by the sun god and emerged from the cave of Pacaritambo carrying a golden staff, called tapac-yauri . Instructed to create a Temple of the Sun in the spot where the staff sank into

440-588: The original owner of various lost treasures . In the first sentence of Herman Melville 's novel The Confidence-Man (1857) the sudden appearance at sunrise on April 1 of a mysterious fictional character is compared to Cápac's appearance out of Lake Titicaca . In P.B. Kerr 's Eye of the Forest , the fifth book in the Children of the Lamp series, Manco Cápac is said to be a powerful Djinn who took his place as

462-560: Was mummified and remained in the city until the reign of Pachacuti , who ordered its removal to the Temple of the Sun on Isla del Sol . In Cusco there remained only a statue erected in his honor. Manco Cápac is the protagonist of the two main legends that explain the origin of the Inca Empire . Both legends state that he was the founder of the city of Cusco and that his wife was Mama Uqllu . In this legend, Manco Cápac (Ayar Manco)

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484-478: Was the son of Viracocha of Paqariq Tampu (six leagues or 25 km south of Cusco). He and his brothers (Ayar Auca, Ayar Cachi and Ayar Uchu) and sisters ( Mama Ocllo , Mama Huaco, Mama Raua and Mama Ipacura) lived near Cusco at Paqariq Tampu, and they united their people with other tribes encountered in their travels. They sought to conquer the tribes of the Cusco Valley. This legend also incorporates

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