Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas (1507 in

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– 1559 in

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) was a Spanish conquistador and colonial official. He fathered a son, the mestizo chronicler Garcilaso de la Vega, with the

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princess Isabel Chimpu Occlo. Garcilaso was the third son of Alonso de Hinestrosa de Vargas and Blanca de Sotomayor. He served with Pedro de Alvarado, and participated in the conquests of Hernán Cortés, first in Mexico and later in Guatemala. In 1534, he left for Peru. After arriving in Venezuela, he marched to Quito and later joined the army of

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. After receiving orders to conquer the

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valley, he abandoned the attempt to colonize the San Mateo Bay, returning to

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with his eighty men to encounter

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. He participated in the expedition to the Collao, along with

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and Pedro de Oñate, defeating Tiso Yupanqui in the battle of

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. Under the provision of the Royal Audiencia of Lima, he was honored as corregidor of Cuzco on November 17, 1554.

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