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
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
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The Muisca were a pre-Columbian culture and colonial communities of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, whose customs lasted up to the beginning of the 19th c
Muisca raft (1200–1500 CE) representation of the initiation of the new zipa at the lake of Guatavita
View of the Eastern Ranges of the Andean natural region Lake Tota is clearly visible
A Muiscan ceramic figure, 600–1600 AD