# Qullasuyu > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Qullasuyu > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Qullasuyu.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qullasuyu > Source revision: 1354025058 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Suyu of the Incan Empire This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Qullasuyu" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Qullasuyu Suyu of Inca Empire 1438–1535 Qullasuyu within the Inca Empire Capital Hatunqulla [es] Historical era Pre-Columbian Peru • Established 1438 • Spanish conquest 1535 • Conquest of Chile 1541 Subdivisions • Type Wamani Succeeded by Viceroyalty of Peru **Qullasuyu** ([Quechua](/source/Quechua_language) and [Aymara](/source/Aymara_language) spelling, [listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/Ay-Qullasuyu.oga/Ay-Qullasuyu.oga.mp3)[ⓘ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ay-Qullasuyu.oga); *Collasuyu, Kholla Suyu*; [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language): *Collasuyo*) was the southeastern provincial region of the [Inca Empire](/source/Inca_Empire). Qullasuyu is the region of the [Qulla](/source/Qulla) and related specifically to the native Qulla [Quechuas](/source/Quechuas) who primarily resided in areas such as [Cochabamba](/source/Cochabamba) and [Potosí](/source/Potos%C3%AD). Most [Aymara](/source/Aymara_people) territories which are now largely incorporated into the modern South American states of northern [Chile](/source/Chile), [Peru](/source/Peru), [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia) and the [Argentine Northwest](/source/Argentine_Northwest) were conquered during the reign of [Sapa Inca](/source/Sapa_Inca) [Huayna Cápac](/source/Huayna_C%C3%A1pac) 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](/source/Tawantinsuyu) in extent. This ideal has been proposed by the office of the [Apu Mallku](/source/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](/source/Altiplano) and much of the southern Andes, running down into northwest Argentina and as far south as the [Maule river](/source/Maule_river) near modern Santiago, Chile.[1] Along with [Kuntisuyu](/source/Kuntisuyu), it was part of the *[Hurin Suyukuna](/source/Inca_Government#Organization_of_the_empire)* or "Lower Quarters" of the empire.[2][3] [Wiphala](/source/Wiphala) of the Qullasuyu The first large Spanish incursion into Qullasuyu was [Diego de Almagro's expedition to Chile](/source/Diego_de_Almagro's_expedition_to_Chile) in 1535 in which a large force entered present-day Bolivia, the Argentine Northwest and then Chile. The modern demonym *[Colla](/source/Colla_(demonym))* for people of western Bolivia is derived from Qullasuyu.[4] ## Etymology The four *suyus* of the Inca empire. Qullasuyu appears in blue. From [Quechua](/source/Quechua_language), composite of *qulla* (meaning [south](/source/South), but also the [namesake people](/source/Qulla_people)) and *[suyu](/source/Suyu_(Inca_Empire))* (region, quarter of the [Inca Empire](/source/Inca_Empire)), with the meaning of "southern region".[5] ## Wamani Each *suyu* was divided into *wamani*, or provinces. Qullasuyu included the *wamani* of: - [Arica](/source/Arica) or Arika - Cana or Kana - Canche or Kanche - Caranga or Karanka - Caruma - Cavina or Kawina, whose people were “Incas by privilege” - Chicha - [Cochabamba](/source/Cochabamba_Department) or Quchapampa - Collagua - Lipe - [Locumba](/source/Locumba) - [Lupaqa](/source/Lupaqa) - [Moquegua](/source/Moquegua) - [Pacajes](/source/Pacajes) or Pacasa - Qolla Urcosuyu or Qulla Urqusuyu - Sama - Tambo or Tampu - [Tarata](/source/Tarata_Province) - Ubina - Yampará or Yampara [6][7] ## See also - [Antisuyu](/source/Antisuyu) - [Chinchaysuyu](/source/Chinchaysuyu) - [Kuntisuyu](/source/Kuntisuyu) - [Oroncota](/source/Oroncota), Yampara settlement and Inca fortress in Bolivia - [Organization of the Inca Empire](/source/Inca_Government#Organization_of_the_empire) - [The Chilean Inca Trail](/source/The_Chilean_Inca_Trail) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** D’Altroy, Terence N. (2005). The Incas. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, p. 86-87 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** D’Altroy, Terence N. (2005). The Incas. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, p. 42-43, 86–89 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Steward, Julian H. & Faron, Louis, C. (1959). Native Peoples of South America. McGraw-Hill: New York, p. 185-192 1. **[^](#cite_ref-identidad_4-0)** Makaran, Gaya (2010). ["La identidad camba"](https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/4463/446344468018.pdf) (PDF). *La Colmena* (in Spanish). 65–66: 112–122. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** D’Altroy, Terence N. (2005). The Incas. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, p. 42-43, 86–89 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Steward, Julian H. & Faron, Louis, C. (1959). Native Peoples of South America. McGraw-Hill: New York, p. 185-192 This Peruvian geography article is a stub. 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