Apu Mallku is an Aymara title meaning "supreme leader" or "king" conferred on a Mallku or "prince". The Apu Mallku's mandate is to oversee the vast network of Ayllus, an ancient Andean system of governing councils that predates even the Inca empire. It appears that the mandate of the Apu Mallku was initially restricted to the Collasuyu (the traditional Aymara lands of Bolivia, parts of Peru and northern Chile) but it could now be interpreted (since a resolution in 2000) to extend to the bounds of the much larger former Inca realm of the Tawantinsuyu which stretched throughout the Andes incorporating the modern states of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. The self-appellation for the people of this combined territory is Qullana.
It would seem through the ayllus system there is a large degree of coordination between both the Aymara and the Quechua nations. Apu Mallku was the title bestowed upon Evo Morales on 21 January 2006 at Tiwanaku, the day before his official inauguration as president of Bolivia.
ApuMallku is an Aymara title meaning "supreme leader" or "king" conferred on a Mallku or "prince". The ApuMallku's mandate is to oversee the vast network...
Mallku is a title roughly translating as "prince" or "leader" in the Aymara language of South America. They recognise an ApuMallku as their "supreme...
Tawantinsuyu in extent. This ideal has been proposed by the office of the ApuMallku and the parliament of the Qullana. Qullasuyu was the largest of the four...
Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu (Conamaq). This body chooses an ApuMallku as its head. How the ancient and current organizational form correspond...
Machaca is an indigenous leader from Bolivia who served as the elected ApuMallku, or spiritual leader, of CONAMAQ - Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas...
pairs of men and women: the Jiliri ApuMallku and Jiliri Mama T’alla (first male and female leaders) and Arquiri ApuMallku and Arquiri Mama T’alla (second...
attended an indigenous spiritual ceremony at Tiwanaku where he was crowned ApuMallku (Supreme Leader) of the Aymara, receiving gifts from indigenous peoples...
Paredes was an ethnic Aymara ApuMallku of Qullana Suyu Marka (Greater Collasuyu) between 2000 and 2003. He had been a Mallku representing the Aymara community...
forced to seek an alternative candidate. A day after the Mallku's death, the leadership of APU announced that it had decided that Santos Quispe would replace...
known as Vichama. In other representations, Mallko was the Inca god of law. Mallku (Spirits of the mountains) was a deity that represents the spirit and strength...
forced sterilization in 1969 in his Quechua-language feature film Yawar Mallku. Quechuas have been left out of their nation's regional economic growth...
usos y costumbres. In mid-November, Felipe Quispe, popularly known as "El Mallku", launched his gubernatorial candidacy. The former guerilla and trade union...
hazard maps have been published. Guallatiri was considered to be an apu or mallku, a protective mountain spirit. The mountain was and still is worshipped...
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