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Collasuyo
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Qullasuyu (Quechua and Aymara spelling, ; Collasuyu, Kholla Suyu; ) was the southeastern provincial region of the Inca Empire. Qullasuyu is the region of the Qulla and related specifically to the native Qulla Quechuas who primarily resided in areas such as Cochabamba and Potosí. Most Aymara territories which are now largely incorporated into the modern South American states of northern Chile, Peru, Bolivia and the Argentine Northwest were conquered during the reign of Sapa Inca Huayna Cápac in the sixteenth century.

Key facts

Former subdivision.subdivision
Suyu
Former subdivision.nation
Inca Empire
Former subdivision.year_start
1438
Former subdivision.year_end
1535
Former subdivision.event_end
Spanish conquest
Former subdivision.era
Pre-Columbian Peru
Former subdivision.event_post
Conquest of Chile
Former subdivision.date_post
1541
Former subdivision.image_map
TawantinSuyu QullaSuyu.png
Former subdivision.image_map_caption
Qullasuyu within the Inca Empire
Former subdivision.s1
Viceroyalty of Peru
Former subdivision.Divisions
Wamani

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Qullasuyu (Quechua and Aymara spelling, ; Collasuyu, Kholla Suyu; ) was the southeastern provincial region of the Inca Empire. Qullasuyu is the region of the Qulla and related specifically to the native Qulla Quechuas who primarily resided in areas such as Cochabamba and Potosí. Most Aymara territories which are now largely incorporated into the modern South American states of northern Chile, Peru, Bolivia and the Argentine Northwest were conquered during the reign of Sapa Inca Huayna Cápac in the sixteenth century.

Recently, there have been movements to form a "Greater Qullasuyu" (or Qullana Suyu Marka) which would incorporate a territory similar to the former Tawantinsuyu in extent. This ideal has been proposed by the office of the Apu Mallku and the parliament of the Qullana. Qullasuyu was the largest of the four suyu (or "quarters", the largest divisions of the Inca empire) in terms of area. This suyu encompassed the Bolivian Altiplano and much of the southern Andes, running down into northwest Argentina and as far south as the Maule river near modern Santiago, Chile. Along with Kuntisuyu, it was part of the Hurin Suyukuna or "Lower Quarters" of the empire.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Collasuyo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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