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          Portrait of Atahualpa by an unknown artist from the Cuzco School.

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          Atahualpa

          Last Inca Emperor (ruled 1532–1533)

          This article is about the Inca emperor.

          For a mountain in the Cusco Region, Peru, see Atawallpa (Cusco). For the Bolivian province, see Atahuallpa Province.

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        2. The Brooklyn Museum of Art has in its collection a series of fourteen portraits of Inka rulers—one of the portraits depicts the sixteenth-century Inka emperor.
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        4. This series of 14 bust-length portraits represents historical Inca kings.
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          6. For the merchant ship, see Atahualpa (ship).

          Atahualpa (), also Atawallpa or Ataw Wallpa (Quechua) (c. 1502 – 26 July 1533),[2][a] was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in July of the following year, as part of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

          Biography

          Atahualpa was the son of the emperor Huayna Cápac, who died around 1525 along with his successor, Ninan Cuyochi, in a smallpox epidemic. Atahualpa initially accepted his half-brother Huáscar as the new emperor, who in turn appointed him as governor of Quito in the north of the empire.

          The uneasy peace between them deteriorated over the next few years. From 1529 to 1532, they contested the succession in the Inca Civil War,