Curaçá is the northernmost city in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The municipality was designated a priority area for conservation and sustainable use when...

The Curaçá River is a river of Bahia state in eastern Brazil. Juazeiro is in reality part of a twin city called Petrolina-Juazeiro and it lies on the São...

among the seasonal waterways are Riacho Melância watershed 30 km south of Curaçá, where the last known wild Spix's macaw nest was located, adjacent Riacho...

an internationally known Brazilian writer and actor. Andrade was born in Curaçá, Bahia. Some of his movies were nominees for Oscars. He died, aged 36, in...

ancient times, such as prefects in ancient China, paqūdus in Babylonia, curaca in the Inca Empire, vigiles in the Roman Empire, and Medjay in ancient Egypt...

that this part of the valley, near the Rimac river, was administered by a curaca, or local lord, named Taulichusco. He was a former yana, or servant, of...

perform arrests, even of dignitaries. In the Inca Empire, officials called curaca enforced the law among the households they were assigned to oversee, with...

Andagoya eventually established contact with several Native American curacas (chiefs), some of whom he later claimed were sorcerers and witches. Having...

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province should pay according to its resources. They knew how to win over the curacas to ensure control of the communities. These were the intermediaries through...

children of the central nobility and certain levels of the curacal (hatun curaca) received systematic education. They had to attend the yachaywasi (house...

the empire for themselves, excluding them. It was then that Ullco Colla, curaca of Tomebamba, sent messengers to Huascar with news that Atahualpa planned...

daughter of the Sapa Inca Huayna Capac and one of his secondary wives – the curaca of Huaylas, Contarhuacho. She was baptized as Inés Huaylas Yupanqui when...

Audiencia. Criollo leaders appealed to retired brigadier Mateo Pumacahua, curaca of Chinchero, who was instrumental in suppressing the rebellion of Túpac...

records, RG 42-C-3-a, vol. 597, the testimony of Edward McCrossan (SS Curacas), Library and Archives Canada. Scapegoat, the extraordinary legal proceedings...

is 26 °C or 78.8 °F. Although it lies on the São Francisco River and the Curaçá River, Juazeiro is one of the driest places in Brazil, with a hot semi-arid...

governor of a province or a communal authority in the Tawantinsuyu), or curaca (Hispanicized spelling), was an official of the Andean civilizations, unified...

the survival of Inca resistance. Peaceful conquest was possible when a curaca agreed to recognize the Sapa Inca as his emperor in return for a number...

Spaniards, naked and covered by a black pigmentation. He was invested as curaca along with his brother Trangolonco. Both ruled over a good part of the Aconcagua...

Hatun Curaca en el Munro Andino". Historica. 1 (2): 249–286. doi:10.18800/historica.197702.005. Del Pilar Remy Simatovic, María (2011). Los curacas de Cajamarca...

language for trade and dealing with Spanish-approved indigenous authorities (curaca) made the language expand even after the Spanish conquest. It was not until...

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Viracocha assured both of his support, but secretly promised his help to Curi, curaca of the Lupacas, who had previously defeated the Canas chiefdom and taken...

appealed to retired brigadier Mateo Pumacahua, then in his 70s, who was curaca of Chinchero, and decades earlier had been instrumental in suppressing the...

indigenous men buying themselves out of the labor draft by paying their own curacas or employers. The diminution of the number of natives in the Americas due...

machaguay, extends off to the right. During the Inti Raymi, the Sapa Inca and curacas would proceed from the Haucaypata, where they greeted the rising June solstice...

extended family clan (allyu), authority of the clan and regional chiefs (curacas), land ownership, farming, language, rituals and sacred life (for example...

celebrated for me in Cuzco." Upon her return home, Tanta’s father became the curaca of his ayllu. Tanta was deified and her “sacrifice... ritually asserted...

of the Ayarmacas (1460s) Inca Empire Ayarmacas Inca Victory The Ayarmaca curaca is taken prisoner. Pachacuti Topa Inca Yupanqui Conquest of the Cajamarcas...

the first century, Spanish encomenderos depended on local chieftains (curacas) to gain access to the Indian population's tribute labor, even the most...