Viracocha Inca

About 1430 the Inca emperor Viracocha began conquests southward from his capital at Cuzco. Aymara territories ultimately formed a major part of the Inca empire, against which the Aymara continually revolted.

…is said that the Inca Viracocha established a year of 12 months, each beginning with the new moon, and that his successor, Pachacuti, finding confusion in regard to the year, built the sun towers in order to keep a check on the calendar. Since Pachacuti reigned less than a century…

…the Cuzco valley, and under Viracocha Inca (Wiraqocha ’Inka), the eighth, they began a program of permanent conquest by establishing garrisons among the settlements of the peoples whom they had conquered.

…thereafter, and the elders chose Viracocha Inca (Wiraqocha ’Inka) as his successor.