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Muzo people

Index Muzo people

The Muzo people were a Cariban-speaking indigenous group who inhabited the western slopes of the eastern Colombian Andes. [1]

75 relations: Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Andes, Antonio Díaz de Cardoso, Boyacá Department, Butterfly, Cacique, Cannibalism, Caparrapí, Carare River, Cariban languages, Catholic Church, Ceramic, Chiminigagua, Chivor, Colombia, Colombian emeralds, Colombian Spanish, Conquistador, Coper, Boyacá, Copper, Cordillera Oriental (Colombia), Cotton, Cundinamarca Department, Curare, Departments of Colombia, El Tiempo (Colombia), Emerald, Fountain of Youth, Gold, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Guane people, Indiana University, Iron, Javier Ocampo López, Juan de Castellanos, Lache people, List of Muisca and pre-Muisca scholars, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Luis Lanchero, Magdalena River, Maripí, Muisca, Muisca agriculture, Muisca religion, Muisca rulers, Muzo, New Kingdom of Granada, Nikolaus Federmann, Otanche, Paime, ..., Panche people, Pauna, Pedro de Ursúa, Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela (conquistador), Pedro Simón, Pita, Pontifical Xavierian University, Puerto Boyacá, Puerto Salgar, Quípama, Saboyá, Sagipa, San Cayetano, Cundinamarca, San Pablo de Borbur, Santa Marta, Santander Department, Semana, Silver, Sogamoso River, Spanish conquest of the Muisca, Suárez River, Sutagao people, Tisquesusa, Topaipí, Tununguá. Expand index (25 more) »

Altiplano Cundiboyacense

The Altiplano Cundiboyacense is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Antonio Díaz de Cardoso

Antonio Díaz de Cardoso (?, Santa Comba, Portugal - ?, ?) was a Portuguese conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people.

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Boyacá Department

Boyacá is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".

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Butterfly

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.

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Cacique

A cacique (feminine form: cacica) is a leader of an indigenous group, derived from the Taíno word kasikɛ for the pre-Columbian tribal chiefs in the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.

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Caparrapí

Caparrapí is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca.

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Carare River

Carare River is a river of northern Colombia.

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Cariban languages

The Cariban languages are an indigenous language family of South America.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

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Chiminigagua

Chiminigagua, Chiminichagua or Chimichagua was the supreme being, omnipotent god and creator of the world in the religion of the Muisca.

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Chivor

Chivor is a town and municipality in the Eastern Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Colombian emeralds

Emeralds are green precious gemstones that are mined in various geological settings.

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Colombian Spanish

Colombian Spanish (Spanish: español colombiano) is a grouping of the varieties of Spanish spoken in Colombia.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

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Coper, Boyacá

Coper is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)

The Cordillera Oriental (Eastern Ranges) is the widest of the three branches of the Colombian Andes.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Cundinamarca Department

Department of Cundinamarca (Departamento de Cundinamarca) is one of the departments of Colombia.

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Curare

Curare or is a common name for various plant extract alkaloid arrow poisons originating from Central and South America.

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Departments of Colombia

Colombia is a unitary republic made up of thirty-two departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital).

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El Tiempo (Colombia)

El Tiempo (The Time) is a nationally distributed, broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia.

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Emerald

Emerald is a precious gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium.

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Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth is a spring that supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as De Quezada and Ximénez, (1496 – other sources state 1506 or 1509Graham (1922) Suesca, 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia. He explored the northern part of South America. As a well-educated lawyer he was one of the intellectuals of the Spanish conquest. He was an effective organizer and leader, designed the first legislation for the government of the area, and was its historian. After 1569 he undertook explorations toward the east, searching for the elusive El Dorado, but returned to New Granada in 1573. He has been suggested as a possible model for Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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Guane people

The Guane were a South American people that lived mainly in the area of Santander and north of Boyacá, both departments of present-day central-Colombia.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Javier Ocampo López

Javier Ocampo López (Aguadas, Caldas, 19 June 1939) is a Colombian historian, writer, folklorist and professor.

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Juan de Castellanos

Juan de Castellanos (Alanís, Sevilla, Spain, March 9, 1522 - Tunja, Boyacá, New Kingdom of Granada, November 1606) - Boyacá Cultural was a Criollo poet, soldier and Catholic priest.

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Lache people

The Lache were an indigenous, agrarian people in the highlands of what is now central Colombia's northern Boyacá and Santander departments, primarily in Gutiérrez Province and García Rovira Province.

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List of Muisca and pre-Muisca scholars

This list contains Muisca and pre-Muisca scholars; researchers, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and other investigators who have contributed to the current knowledge of the Muisca and their ancestors of the prehistory of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and of the preceramic and ceramic Herrera Periods.

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Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita

Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita (1624, Bogotá – March 29, 1688) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Panamá (1676–1688) and the Bishop of Santa Marta (1668–1676).

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Luis Lanchero

Luis Lanchero, also known as Luis Lancheros (?, Castile - 1562, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador and the founder of the town of Muzo, Boyacá, the most important emerald settlement in Colombia.

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Magdalena River

The Magdalena River (Río Magdalena,; Less commonly Rio Grande de la Magdalena) is the principal river of Colombia, flowing northward about through the western half of the country.

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Maripí

Maripí is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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Muisca

The Muisca are an indigenous group of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest.

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Muisca agriculture

The Muisca agriculture describes the agriculture of the Muisca, the advanced civilisation that was present in the times before the Spanish conquest on the high plateau in the Colombian Andes; the Altiplano Cundiboyacense.

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Muisca religion

Muisca religion describes the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the central highlands of the Colombian Andes before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca.

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Muisca rulers

When the Spanish arrived in the central Colombian highlands, the region was organized into the Muisca Confederation, which had two rulers; the zipa was the ruler of the southern part and based in Bacatá, now known as Bogotá.

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Muzo

Muzo is a town and municipality in the Western Boyacá Province, part of the department of Boyacá, Colombia.

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New Kingdom of Granada

The New Kingdom of Granada (Nuevo Reino de Granada), or Kingdom of the New Granada, was the name given to a group of 16th-century Spanish colonial provinces in northern South America governed by the president of the Audiencia of Santa Fe, an area corresponding mainly to modern-day Colombia, Panama and Venezuela.

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Nikolaus Federmann

Nikolaus Federmann (Nicolás de Federmán) (c. 1505, Ulm – February 1542, Valladolid) was a German adventurer and conquistador in the colonies of Venezuela and Colombia.

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Otanche

Otanche is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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Paime

Paime is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca.

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Panche people

The Panche or Tolima were a Cariban-speakingMartínez, 2005 indigenous group of people in modern-day Colombia.

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Pauna

Pauna is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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Pedro de Ursúa

Pedro de Ursúa (1526 – 1561) was a Spanish conquistador from Baztan in Navarre.

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Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela (conquistador)

Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela (?, Córdoba, Andalusia - ?, Córdoba) was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada from 1536 to 1538.

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Pedro Simón

Fray Pedro Simón (San Lorenzo de la Parrilla, Spain, 1574 - Ubaté, Colombia, ca. 1628) was a Spanish franciscan friar, professor and chronicler of the indigenous peoples of Colombia and Venezuela, at the time forming the New Kingdom of Granada.

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Pita

Pita in Greek, sometimes spelled pitta (mainly UK), also known as Arabic bread, Lebanese bread, or Syrian bread, is a soft, slightly leavened flatbread baked from wheat flour, which originated in Western Asia, most probably Mesopotamia around 2500 BC.

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Pontifical Xavierian University

The Pontifical Xavierian University (in Spanish Pontificia Universidad Javeriana) is a private higher education institution founded in 1623.

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Puerto Boyacá

Puerto Boyacá is a Colombian river-port town and municipality by the Magdalena River in the Boyacá Department, where is also considered a Special Handling Zone due to its port status.

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Puerto Salgar

Puerto Salgar is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca.

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Quípama

Quípama is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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Saboyá

Saboyá is a town and municipality in the Western Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá.

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Sagipa

Sagipa or Zaquesazipa (died 1539, Bosa, New Kingdom of Granada) was the fifth and last ruler (zipa) of Bacatá, currently known as the Colombian capital Bogotá, as of 1537.

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San Cayetano, Cundinamarca

San Cayetano is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca.

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San Pablo de Borbur

San Pablo de Borbur is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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Santa Marta

Santa Marta, officially Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta ("Touristic, Cultural and Historic District of Santa Marta"), is a city in Colombia.

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Santander Department

Santander is a department of Colombia.

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Semana

Semana (Spanish: Week) is a weekly magazine of opinion and analysis in Colombia.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

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Sogamoso River

Sogamoso River is a river of northern Colombia.

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Spanish conquest of the Muisca

The Spanish conquest of the Muisca took place from 1537 to 1540.

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Suárez River

The Suárez River, originally Saravita, is a river in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.

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Sutagao people

The Sutagao are the Chibcha-speaking indigenous people from the region of Fusagasugá, Bogotá savanna, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

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Tisquesusa

Tisquesusa, also spelled Thisquesuza, Thysquesuca or Thisquesusha (died Facatativá, 1537) was the fourth and last independent ruler (zipa) of Bacatá, main settlement of the southern Muisca between 1514 and his death in 1537.

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Topaipí

Topaipí is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca.

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Tununguá

Tununguá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzo_people

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