Wiraqucha (Quechua, the name of a god) or Viracocha (in hispanicized spelling) (c. 1410 – 1438) was the eighth Sapa Inka of the Kingdom of Cuzco (beginning around 1410) and the third of the Hanan dynasty.

The source closest to the original indigenous accounts comes from Juan de Betanzos, a Spanish commoner who rose to prominence by marrying an Inca princess and becoming the foremost translator for the colonial government of Cusco.

According to these accounts, including a widely recognized sixteenth century chronology written by Miguel Cabello Balboa, Wiraqucha was a "warlike" and "valiant" prince.

However, his third son, Cusi Inca Yupanqui (later famous as the Emperor Pachakuti) refused to abandon Cusco and the House of the Sun.

[3]: 58–59, 61–61, 71 One chronicler, Sarmiento de Gamboa, states that Wiraqucha was the first Incan to rule the territories he conquered, while his predecessors merely raided and looted them.