pachacuti is incorrectly written, and should be written as "Pachacútec" being its meaning: pachacuti = Pachacutecpachacutec or Pachacuti ( quechua: Pacha Kutiy Inqa Yupanki; " inca of the change of the direction of the land, worthy of esteem. " 1 ) It was the ninth ruler of the Inca State and who developed it from a simple chiefdom a great Empire: the Tahuantinsuyo. Although he had not been designated as a successor by his father Inca Viracocha, directed a defence before the warlike Chanca army while he and his son Inca Urco fled the Manor. The victory over the chancas did Viracocha Inca to recognize it as his successor around 1438.