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• plural of Inca.

Incas

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1. A Native American people who built a notable civilization in western South America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru. Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the Inca Empire.

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In this middle area, too, a landscape and the sea, also associated with Incan gods, are visible above a stone wall much like those the Incas built.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

"Guano was a highly sought-after resource the Incas would have wanted access to, playing an important role in the diplomatic arrangements between the Inca and the Chincha communities," Dr. Bongers said.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026

“There’s a mystical weirdness about the place that is so cool,” Glasnow said of the ancient stone-walled structures of the Lost City of the Incas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

From there the Princess will head to Qoricancha, or “The Golden Temple” in Quechua language, considered the most important - and most sacred - temple by the Incas.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

If she Put them on She would see me Studying the Incas Who lived two steps From heaven, way in the mountains.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

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