Huayna Capac’s Life After Death & Final Resting Place For most leaders, death would be the end of the story, but Huayna Capac, like the Sapa Incas before him, remained in service to the Inca ...

By the time the Inca king Huayna Capac took power around 1493, little seemed beyond the reach of the Inca dynasty. To bring grandeur to his new capital in Ecuador, Huayna Capac put more than 4,500 ...

Inca ruler Huayna Capac (1493-1527), for instance, passed power not only to his son Huáscar, whose mother was Capac's wife and sister, but also to his son Atahualpa, whose mother was apparently a ...

The site, where the palace of the Incan ruler Huayna Capac once stood, now features a sprawling religious site with cloisters and manicured gardens. From there, head to the lookout atop El ...