Muisca architecture
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This article describes the architecture of the Muisca. The Muisca, inhabiting the central highlands of the Colombian Andes, were one of the four great civilizations of the Americas. Unlike the three civilizations in present-day Mexico and Peru, they did not construct grand architecture of solid materials. While specialising in agriculture and gold-working, cloths and ceramics, their architecture was rather modest and made of non-permanent materials as wood and clay.
During the earliest stages of inhabitation, the people lived in caves and rock shelters, for example the Piedras del Tunjo in Facatativá
Replica of Muisca bohíos
As in North America, here Timucua, the villages of the Muisca were surrounded by wooden poles; enclosures
Bohíos were built slightly elevated from the surrounding area, like in Tayrona National Park
Muisca Confederation
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The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers in the central Andean highlands of what is today Colombia before the Spanish conquest of northern South America. The area, presently called Altiplano Cundiboyacense, comprised the current departments of Boyacá, Cundinamarca and minor parts of Santander.
Landscape of Chipazaque
The Muisca were bordered to the west by the Emerald People
The Sun Temple was the seat of the iraca
The area around Tundama was filled with small lakes of which some bloody evidences remain