A confederation of Andean chiefdoms — Quitu, Caranqui, Cayambe, Otavalo and Cochasquí — astride the equator, who held back the Inca for years before Quito became the empire's northern crown.
Absorbed by the Inca under Huayna Capac after the Caranqui wars (the Yawarkucha massacre); Quito then became Atahualpa's seat, fell to Spain under Sebastián de Belalcázar in 1534, and survives as Ecuador's capital and indigenous Kichwa heartland.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Quitu-Cara (Kingdom of Quito) — the shape you scrub through changes in 800 · 1506 · 1533.
Treats the northern Andean chiefdoms of Quito absorbed by Huayna Capac after the Caranqui wars (within the Inca study).
Narrates the conquest-era Quito of Atahualpa and its fall to Sebastián de Belalcázar (broad regional context).