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Monday, July 11, 2011

From 100 Facts for 100 Years of Machu Picchu - #47


By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor
47. Francisco Pizaro earily took over the city of Cuzco. Two years later, he founded Lima, where he died in 1541.

After killing Atahuallpa, Pizzaro took two of his sisters as mistresses Inés Yupanqui with whom he had Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui and Gonzalo Pizarro and Cuxirimay Ocllo Yupanqui with who he had two sons Francisco and Juan.

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