Alternate meaning: Huáscar (warship)

Huascar, in full Inti Cusi Huallpa Huáscar (“Sun of Joy”) (died 1532). Huascar was killed by his men near Cajamarca. His father Huayna Capac may have intended Huascar to be the Inca, and his brother Atahualpa to be the governor of the Quito province. But Huayna Capac and his initial heir died prematurely without naming a successor, and was probably an early victim of smallpox. Without a clear line of succession a war soon broke out between Huascar and his brother Atahualpa. Atahualpa won the war, and was on his way back to Cuzco when he ran into Francisco Pizarro. It is believed by some that Atahuallpa ordered Huascar's killing before Pizarro could see him, so that Pizarro could not divide the empire against itself.