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Significant1537 – 1572 · 35 years

Spanish conquest of Vilcabamba

Vilcabamba · Cusco region

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

After the failed siege of Cusco, Manco Inca and his successors retreated to the remote jungle redoubt of Vilcabamba, sustaining an independent Neo-Inca state until 1572, when Viceroy Toledo's forces captured and executed the last Inca, Tupac Amaru.

Belligerents2

  • Neo-Inca State
  • Spanish Empire

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

PART OFSpanish Conquest of the Inca Empire

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Neo-Inca State
  2. Hemming, The Conquest of the Incas
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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