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Pachacuti

A person wearing traditional Andean attire, including a headdress adorned with feathers and intricate beadwork, and a necklace with a prominent pendant, symbolizing cultural heritage and historical significance.

Ninth Sapa Inca, reigning roughly 1438 to 1471, credited by Spanish chroniclers and Inca oral tradition with transforming a small Cusco-valley polity into an imperial state. He is associated with the rebuilding of Cusco, the founding of Machu Picchu, and the great cyclopean projects including Sacsayhuamán. His name in Quechua means roughly 'earth-shaker' or 'world-turner'.

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