Cura Ocllo

Statue of Ocllo in Ollantaytambo, Peru, 2017

Cura Ocllo (died 1539) was an Inca queen consort, or coya, as the wife and full sister of the Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui,[1]: 75, 88  whose reign over the Inca Empire began in 1533. During the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, she was abducted and raped by the Spanish soldier Gonzalo Pizarro in an incident that greatly exacerbated tensions with Yupanqui, who, amidst the fall of the Inca Empire to the Spanish Empire, decried the conduct of Spanish troops towards the Inca people. He subsequently founded the rebellious Neo-Inca State, which was also conquered by the Spanish by 1572.

  1. ^ Titu Cusi Yupanqui, 2005, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, ISBN 9780870818219

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