Altiplano Cundiboyacense
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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. The altiplano corresponds to the a
Typical landscape of the Altiplano, near Arcabuco, Boyacá
Panorama of the Iraca Valley of Sogamoso (foreground)–Duitama (left)
Panorama of the Playa de los Frailejones on the Ocetá Páramo
Northern South America around 90 Mya
The Spanish conquest of the Muisca took place from 1537 to 1540. The Muisca were the inhabitants of the central Andean highlands of Colombia before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. They were
Altiplano Cundiboyacense
…Zipaquirá. The ages between 3000 and 1000 years before present corresponds to the Herrera Period, and the era between 1000 BP and 1537, the year of the Spanish conquest, to the Muisca Confederation. The Muisca were the inhabitants of the central Andean highlands of Colombia before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors…
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the leader of conquest expedition from Santa Marta to the Muisca territories
The rock shelters of El Abra have provided the oldest evidence of inhabitation; lithic tools, charcoal and pictographs
The famous Muisca raft, representing the initiation ritual of the new zipa formed the basis of the legend of El Dorado, the main motive for the Spanish conquistadors to go on a decades long quest for the "Land of Gold"
The fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus (1502–03) touched the Panamanian part of later Gran Colombia, the country named after him, although he never saw the present territories of the Colombian republic