Battle of Quipaipan
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| Atahualpa-Huascar conflict | |||||||||
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| Part of War of the two brothers | |||||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||||
| Atahualpans | Huáscarans | ||||||||
| Commanders | |||||||||
| Generals Chalicuchima and Quizquiz | Huáscar (captured) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown, maybe 50,000-100,000 (please read text) | Tens of thousands | ||||||||
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| Low | All army disbanded, Huáscar captured, capital Cusco seized | ||||||||
| Inca civil wars: Atahualpa-Huáscar conflict, 1527-1532 |
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| Chimborazo – Quipaypay fields |
After the victory at Chimborazo, Atahualpa stopped in Cajamarca as his generals followed Huascar to the south. The second confrontation took place at Quipaipan, where Huascar was again defeated, his army disbanded, himself captured and - save for the intervention of Pizarro - the entire Inca empire nearly fallen to Atahualpa.
Historians today know today that the battle took place a couple of miles west of the Inca capital Cusco in april 1532. According to the number of soldiers that Atahualpa kept in Cajamarca after the battle of Chimborazo (some 80,000 men), his generals Chalicuchima and Quizquiz should have led between 50,000 and 100,000 men. Huáscar's force was probably slightly smaller, and shocked as they had been utterly beaten earlier in Ecuador.
Little of the battle is known. Atahualpa's generals won a decisive victory, shattering Huáscar's army once again and capturing himself, and shortly after conquering his capital Cusco for Atahualpa. The civil war was thereafter decided, and Atahualpa should have become alone ruler of the mighty Inca empire unless he had been captured himself by Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca.
