Antisuyo

The Antisuyo (Quechua: Anti Šuyu, 'partiality of the antis ') was a suyo of the Empire Inca, located in part of the Amazon of South America as evidenced by the place names, uses and customs of those regions. He mainly included part of the Yungas and mountain range where they left traces such as the construction of Machu Picchu, the basins of the Urubamba and Madre de Dios rivers.

It could be said that the first organized and planned naval action in Peru occurred in the time of the Sapa Inca Inca Yupanqui, since he mobilized 10,000 men on rafts navigating the rivers, a task that took two years, resulting in a catastrophe for the Incas, since according to some authors only 1000 soldiers returned alive. After subduing the Ashaninka (known to the Incas as "campas" or "antis"), very few returned.

The name anti in the Quechua language enunciated the steep mountains of the ceja de selva that were found between the Amazonian plain and the highlands. These places in the Andean Amazon were used for the cultivation of coca.

Map of the Inca Empire: Chinchaysuyo (red), Collasuyo (blue), Antisuyo (in green) and Contisuyo (in yellow).

Wamani

The Incas divided each of their own into Wamani or provinces. For them the Antisuyo included the Wamani of:

• Canas or Kanas
• Campa or Cambas or Thampas
• Chunchos
• Cochabamba
• Cunibo
• Lare or Lari, whose inhabitants were "incas of privilege"
• Machiguenga
• Omasayo or Umasuyu
• Paucartambo or Pawqartampu
• Piro
• Shipibo
• Tarata
• Vilcabamba or Willkapampa

As a dancer of inca anti-run dance, presented in the village of Chacas, Áncash region.