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The Incas had consolidated their empire only a century before Pizarro and his Spanish conquistadores took control of Inca lands in the 1530s The Incan heartland was the Andes Mountains from Ecuador down through Peru into parts of northern Chile including what is now Bolivia some of Argentina and in the north bits of what is now Colombia It covered about 770000 square miles far larger than Spain and held an estimated 14 million people more than in Spain comprised of many different indigenous groups