Qullasuyu

Qullasuyu (Quechua and Aymara spelling, listen^ⓘ; Collasuyu, Kholla Suyu; Spanish: Collasuyo) 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 annexed during the reign of Sapa Inca Huayna Cápac in the sixteenth century.

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

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.^[1] Along with Kuntisuyu, it was part of the Hurin Suyukuna or "Lower Quarters" of the empire.^[2][3]

Wiphala of the Qullasuyu

Etymology

The four suyus of the Inca empire. Qullasuyu appears in blue.

From Quechua, composite of qulla (meaning south, but also the namesake people) and suyu (region, quarter of the Inca Empire), with the meaning of "southern region".^[4]

Wamani

Each suyu was divided into wamani, or provinces. Qullasuyu included the wamani of:

• Arica or Arika
• Cana or Kana
• Canche or Kanche
• Caranga or Karanka
• Caruma
• Cavina or Kawina, whose people were “Incas by privilege”
• Chicha
• Cochabamba or Quchapampa
• Collagua
• Lipe
• Locumba
• Lupaqa
• Moquegua
• Pacajes or Pacasa
• Qolla Urcosuyu or Qulla Urqusuyu
• Sama
• Tambo or Tampu
• Tarata
• Ubina
• Yampará or Yampara

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See also

• Antisuyu
• Chinchaysuyu
• Kuntisuyu
• Oroncota, Yampara settlement and Inca fortress in Bolivia
• Organization of the Inca Empire
• The Chilean Inca Trail