A kuraka (Quechua for the principal governor of a province or a communal authority in the Tawantinsuyu), or curaca (Hispanicized spelling), was an official...

a pachaka kuraka (see below) could be appointed to their position by a waranqa kuraka. Furthermore, it has been suggested that one kuraka in each decimal...

waranqa kuraka. Furthermore, one kuraka in each decimal level could serve as the head of one of the nine groups at a lower level, so that a pachaka kuraka might...

in the province of Cusco, to Miguel Condorcanqui Usquionsa Tupaq Amaru, kuraka of three towns in the Tinta district, and María Rosa Noguera. On May 1,...

term kuraka was preferred to cacique. After conquering the Inca Empire the Spaniards administering the new Peruvian viceroyalty had allowed the kurakas or...

Chilche (1497–1586) was a kuraka of the Cañari tribe. He was a courtier of Inca emperor Huayna Capac, surviving the civil war between his successor Huáscar...

("revered object") that incorporated a shrine to Taulichusco, the last kuraka (indigenous governor) of Lima. The first Government Palace was built by...

the region. It is likely that the title held by each ruler was that of a Kuraka or sinchi, until the reign of Inca Roca, who imposed the term Sapa Inca...

Hispanic American Historical Review 50.4 (1970): 645–664. Spalding, Karen. "Kurakas and commerce: a chapter in the evolution of Andean society." Hispanic American...

Taulichusco, also called the Elder (Spanish: El Viejo), was an Incan kuraka who administered part of the Rímac Valley in the mid-16th century. The Stone...