Andrés Túpac Amaru

Tupac Amaru II and his family, according to a picture of unknown author. Andrés Tupac Amaru would be one of the young people below. Church of Yanaoca.

Andrés Mendigure Tupac Amaru (ca. 1763-1795) was an indigenous rebel leader, nephew of José Gabriel Túpac Amaru, who led the Sorata site with Pedro Vilca Apaza. Childhood It is very alive and well-advised and it is the one that governs the lands said realistic reports on this young mestizo, nephew of Tupac Amaru II, like son of Pedro Mendigure and Cecilia Tupac Amaru, cousin sister of the Inca. Like the rest of his family, they claimed to be descendants of the last Inca of Vilcabamba, Tupac Amaru I.

Linked to commercial activities and access, he soon became acquainted with the indigenous groups of the Altiplano. The Great Revolt

I was about seventeen at the time of the rebellion. He gained military experience in the battle of Sangarará and then participated in the siege of Cuzco, whose adverse results made him leave Tinta on February 6, 1781 to march to the Altiplano.

Known as the Inca Mozo, after the capture of Tupac Amaru II, he appears as a new leader with his uncle Diego Cristobal Túpac Amaru and other Aymara leaders.

Established as a rebel strategy, to continue with the uprising in the southern provinces of Cuzco and the Altiplano, the insurgent leadership set itself the goal of taking Sorata for whose purpose Cuzco and Azangarine columns were split, under the command of the military chiefs veterans, Pedro Vilca Apaza, Miguel Bastidas and Andrés Túpac Amaru. However the capital of Larecaja could not be taken in this first attempt.

On May 4, 1781, the second site of Sorata commanding 20,000 Indians began. To overcome the resistance of the city, the strategy of damming the river was used to launch its waters against the defenses. Linked to sentimentally Gregoria Apaza, sister of Tupac Catari, came to the aid of the Aymara leader after the capture of Sorata (August 4). With the capture of Azangaroo (1781), he would soon be captured and executed. Prison and death After the pardon of the viceroy of the city of Lima, capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru and the signature of Paz de Sicuani (1782), he was involved in new accusations, under the cunning of the disaffected Creoles and detractors of the Inca Rebellion Tupac Amaru II, was arrested and sent to Spain to serve ten years' imprisonment and perpetual exile of the Viceroyalty, since he and the other leaders sought independence from Tahuantinsuyo, against the interests of the Peruvian Viceroyalty, and under the sentence of March 16, 1784, was taken to the City of Madrid, the Kingdom of Spain.

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