Yahuarcocha (Lago de Sangre - Blood Lake) Painting

Around 1460, Tupac Inca Yupanqui, with an army of 200,000 warriors that was sent by his father, easily gained control of the Palta nation in southern Ecuador and northern Peru in a matter of months. However, the Inca army met fierce resistance from the Cañaris, which left the Incas so impressed that after they were defeated the Cañaris were recruited into the Inca army. In northern Ecuador the Inca army met fiercer resistance from a people known as the Cara-Quitus, who prevented the Incas from taking over all of northern Ecuador for the next 17 years, being the life time of two Inca Emperors. The leader of the Caras-Quitus was known as the King of Quito and his title as King was Duchicela Shyris. This would be the equivalent of calling all the Kings of ancient Rome by the title of Caesar. The turning point came in the battle of Laguna de Yahuarcocha where there was such a massacre of the Quito army by the Inca Huayna Capac that the lake turned to blood in 1495. - Oil on a canvas stretcher. 27.6" H x 43.3" W x 1.1" D - Unframed. - Signed on the front.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:43.3 W x 27.6 H x 1.2 D in

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