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{{Short description|Suyu of the Incan Empire}}
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{{Infobox former subdivision
|subdivision = [[Suyu (Inca Empire)|Suyu]]
|nation = [[Inca Empire]]
|capital = {{ill|Hatuncolla|es|lt=Hatunqulla}}
|year_start = 1438
|year_end = 1535
|event_end = [[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire|Spanish conquest]]
|era = [[Pre-Columbian Peru]]
|event_post = [[Conquest of Chile]]
|date_post = 1541
|image_map = TawantinSuyu QullaSuyu.png
|image_map_caption = Qullasuyu within the [[Inca Empire]]
|s1 = Viceroyalty of Peru
|flag_s1 = Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg
|Divisions = [[#Wamani|Wamani]]
}}
'''Qullasuyu''' ([[Quechua language|Quechua]] and [[Aymara language|Aymara]] spelling, {{audio|Ay-Qullasuyu.oga|listen}}; ''Collasuyu, Kholla Suyu''; {{langx|es|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 people|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.

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.{{coord missing|Peru}} 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.<ref>D’Altroy, Terence N. (2005). The Incas. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, p. 86-87</ref> Along with [[Kuntisuyu]], it was part of the ''[[Inca Government#Organization of the empire|Hurin Suyukuna]]'' or "Lower Quarters" of the empire.<ref>D’Altroy, Terence N. (2005). The Incas. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, p. 42-43, 86–89</ref><ref>Steward, Julian H. & Faron, Louis, C. (1959). Native Peoples of South America. McGraw-Hill: New York, p. 185-192</ref>

[[File:Banner of the Qulla Suyu (1979).svg | thumb | right | Wiphala of the Qullasuyu]]

== Etymology ==
[[File:Inca Empire South America.png|thumb|right|The four ''suyus'' of the Inca empire. Qullasuyu appears in blue.]]
From [[Quechua language|Quechua]], composite of ''qulla'' (meaning [[south]], but also the [[Qulla people|namesake people]]) and ''[[suyu (Inca Empire)|suyu]]'' (region, quarter of the [[Inca Empire]]), with the meaning of "southern region".<ref>Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)</ref>

== Wamani ==
Each ''suyu'' was divided into ''wamani'', or provinces. Qullasuyu included the ''wamani'' of:
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*[[Arica]] or Arika
*Cana or Kana
*Canche or Kanche
*Caranga or Karanka
*Caruma
*Cavina or Kawina, whose people were “Incas by privilege”
*Chicha
*[[Cochabamba Department|Cochabamba]] or Quchapampa
*Collagua
*Lipe
*[[Locumba]]
*[[Lupaqa]]
*[[Moquegua]]
*[[Pacajes]] or Pacasa
*Qolla Urcosuyu or Qulla Urqusuyu
*Sama
*Tambo or Tampu
*[[Tarata Province|Tarata]]
*Ubina
*Yampará or Yampara
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<ref>D’Altroy, Terence N. (2005). The Incas. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, p. 42-43, 86–89</ref><ref>Steward, Julian H. & Faron, Louis, C. (1959). Native Peoples of South America. McGraw-Hill: New York, p. 185-192</ref>

== See also ==
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*[[Antisuyu]]
*[[Chinchaysuyu]]
*[[Kuntisuyu]]
*[[Oroncota]], Yampara settlement and Inca fortress in Bolivia
*[[Inca Government#Organization of the empire|Organization of the Inca Empire]]
*[[The Chilean Inca Trail]]
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== References ==
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[[Category:Subdivisions of the Inca Empire]]
[[Category:Qulla]]

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