HUAYNA CAPAC, "THE MIGHTY ONE."

Huayna Capac (original name: Tito-Husi-Hualpa) was born in Tome-Bamba (Plain of Knives), a former city-state held by the Canari People in the Highlands of Ecuador at about 2,500m (8,200 ft) above the sea level. He was the son of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, and grandson of Pachacutec.
The Canari were particularly noted for their resistance against the Inca Empire. Eventually they were conquered by the Incas through wars and marriages under the lead of Huayna Capac. Their land and people formed one of the 4 Suyos of the Empire named Chinchay-Suyo.
Tupac Inca Yupanqui, father of Huayna Capac, conquered the Huanca-Bambas, the most Southern allies of the Canari People. During the time of the European invasion to the lands of South America, they were the first ones to allied with them against the dominion of the Inca Empire. Also he extended the dominion of the Inca Empire Northward along the Andes through modern Ecuador.
The origins of the first inhabitants go back to the year 8060 BC in the cave of Chopsi. They were hunters, and nomads. The culture is represented by tools such as arrows and spears, which have been  found throughout the Andean Valley. The culture was most present about 5585 BC. They used the stable climate, fertile soil and abundant water to develop agriculture. They grew potatoes, olluco, choclo, squash and quinoa. From 5000 BC to 2000 BC, the people developed a more highly organized religious society. They had a highly degree knowledge of the management of Water and control of plagues. Shamans were the highly specialized religious and administrative authorities. Though the Incas  replaced the architecture with their own, they did not suppress their impressive achievements in astronomy and agriculture of the people of that land. As was customary for the Incas, they absorbed useful achievements into their culture.
Because of its high quality architecture the city-state became known as the 2nd Cuzco, a regional capital. Tupac Yupanqui ordered the construction of the great Puma-Punku ("Puma Door."). Indians tols stories to the Europeans chroniclers about the magnificence of the golden temples and other such wonders built in there. The city was given to Atahualpa when the Empire was divided between the 2 brothers after the death of Huayna Capac in 1527.
During Inca times, the city-state was the most important place of the Northern part of the Empire (Chinchay-Suyo). The center of Tome-Bamba was Puma-Punku ("Puma-Door"), from where the administration of the region was performed. Huayna Capac also had his royal palace here.
Huayna Capac's legitimate wife and full sister was Coya Cusi-Rimay. The couple produced no male heirs, but Huayna Capac had more than 50 sons with other sacred women. Then Huayna Capac took another sister, Ar-Aua Ocllo, as his royal wife; they had a son called Tupac-Cusi-Hualpa, also known as Huascar. Other children included Ninan Cuyochi, Atahualpa, Tupac Hualpa, Manco Inca Yupanqui, Atoc, Pa-Ullu Inca, and Quispe Sisa.
Despite the geographical and cultural challenges, the Tahuantinsuyo (the united 4 Regions), was a sophisticated Empire for its time and place. At its height, the dedicated ruler did much to improve the live of his people, building Temples in monumental cities, fortresses of stone marvelously engineered, roads cut through granite mountain slopes, and massive agricultural terraces and hydraulic works. He greatly expanded the Road Network building store houses along it for food so that aid could be quickly rushed to any who were in danger of starvation.
At his hand, the Empire stretched over present-day Bolivia, Peru, Northern Argentina, further South on the Coast up to Maule River in present-day Chile, on the North present-day Ecuador, and South-Western Colombia. The geography of the land included varying terrain from high frozen Andes at very high altitude to the densest swamps, and more than 200 ethnic groups, each with their own customs and languages. Before his death, Huayna Capac, knowing about the arrival of the Europeans, divided the Empire, leaving the newly conquered North (Chinchay-Suyo) to his son Atahualpa (not from a royal line) and the rest of the Suyos to his legitimate heir Huascar. They reigned peacefully for 5 years.
Huayna Capac contracted fever from measles or smallpox while campaigning in Colombia. The Europeans invaders carried smallpox to South America, known in Europe centuries before and acquiring immunity, but it was knew to the population of the Andes and did not have immunity against it developed by itself in the human body because they were not exposed to it. Europeans used it to their advantage. Huayna Capac and millions of other Highlanders in South and Central America died in the epidemic, including the successor and elder son of Huayna Capac, Ninan Cuyochi. Huayna Capac died at the age of 80, having reigned 60.
The fate of the city-state was decided when the Canari tribal leaders chose to follow Atahualpa's brother, Huascar, during the Inca Civil War, betraying Atahualpa. Atahualpa and his generals took revenge, forcing the city to surrender, and destroying the city completely. By the time that the Europeans found the legendary city, all that remained were ruins. The survivors of the Canari-Inca meddled cultures were the people who preceded the formation of the city of Cuenca, the capital of the Az-Uay Province, in Ecuador.