Antisuyu

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Antisuyu is the second smallest of the {{Lang|qu|suyus}}. It was located northeast of Cusco in the high Andes.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=STcGAgAAQBAJ&dq=antisuyu+inca&pg=PA75|title=The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System|last=Bauer|first=Brian S.|date=22 July 2010|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-79204-3|language=en}} Indeed, it is the root of the word "Andes".D'Altroy, Terence N. (2005). The Incas. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, p. 86-87 'Anti' is the likely origin of the word 'Andes', Spanish conquerors generalized the term and named all the mountain chain as 'Andes', instead of only the eastern region, as it was the case in Inca era. According to some sources, Antisuyu was not the smallest of the Incan {{Lang|qu|suyus}}, citing that its territory may have included the eastern slope of the Tahuantinsuyu as well as the adjoining tropical lowlands along the length of the empire.

Antisuyu and Chinchaysuyu were bordered by a line west of the Inca road that ran from Cusco to Tambomachay. The {{Lang|qu|suyu}} was also separated from Collasuyu by the Huatanay River, which flowed through the city to the eastern end of the valley.

Most of the lowland jungle was not part of Tawantinsuyu. Only the jungle region could not be dominated by the Incas, given that they could not colonize the jungle region. Arguably, the first organized and planned naval action of Peru, was in time of the Sapa Inca Tupac Inca Yupanqui, as it mobilized 10,000 men and their supplies on large rafts navigating the rivers, a task that took two years, After that campaign, he went to the rupa rupa of the Ch'unchus, which was a catastrophe for the Incas, since, according to some authors, only 1,000 soldiers returned alive. After subjugating the Ch'unchus, very few arrived at Musu.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZChAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT585|title=Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Volume 1 and|last=Vega|first=Garcilaso de la|date=12 May 2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292767027|language=en}}

The region of Antisuyu was the final retreat of the Neo-Inca state as they fled Spanish conquest. Notable among the Inca settlements here were Vilcabamba, and Vitcos. It is also thought that the mythical city of Paititi may exist somewhere within this region. Historian Andrew Nicol published research in 2009 in which he concluded that the existence of a city such as Paititi is possible within the Peruvian Amazon Basin.{{cite journal|author=Andrew Nicol|year=2009|title=Paititi: The Last Secret Of The Incas? A Critical Analysis Of The Legends Surrounding The Lost Inca City Of Gold|url=http://ijsa.syllabapress.com/issues/articles/ijsa00030/ijsa00030.pdf|journal=International Journal of South American Archaeology|issue=5}} Research as recent as 2016 by Vincent Pélissier provides a possible location for the lost city to the northeast of Vilcabamba.{{cite web|author=Vincent Pélissier|date=2016|title=The Discovery of Paititi Last Capital of the Incas|url=http://paititieldorado.fr/en/|access-date=15 December 2021|publisher=Vincent Pélissier}}

Antisuyu was previously not part of the Incan empire. It was later conquered to address the problem of the shrinking space for crops along the coastal region of the empire.{{Cite book|title=The Incan Army: From Its Origins Until Its Destruction|last=Cárdenas|first=Leiner|date=2018|publisher=Babelcube Inc.|isbn=978-1-5475-2257-6}}

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Each {{Lang|qu|suyu}} was divided into {{Lang|qu|wamani}}, or provinces. Antisuyu included the {{Lang|qu|wamani}} of:

• Campa
• Chunchos
• Cunibo
• Lare or Lari, whose people were “Incas by privilege”
• Machiguenga
• Omasayo or Umasuyu
• Paucartambo or Pawqartampu
• Piro
• Shipibo
• Vilcabamba or Willkapampa

• Amazon Rainforest
• Organization of the Inca Empire
• Chinchaysuyu
• Kuntisuyu
• Qullasuyu

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