Guatavita is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Guavio Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Guatavita is located 75 km northeast of the capital Bogotá. It borders Sesquilé and Machetá in the north, Gachetá and Junín in the east, Guasca in the south and in the west are Tocancipá and Gachancipá.[1]
^(in Spanish) Official website Guatavita Archived 2016-01-30 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 05-05-2016
Guatavita is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Guavio Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Guatavita is located 75 km northeast of the...
Lake Guatavita (Spanish: Laguna Guatavita) is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé in the Almeidas...
initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged himself in Lake Guatavita. A second location for El Dorado was inferred from rumors, which inspired...
the sacred Lake Guatavita and the later legend of El Dorado, as narrated by early Spanish chronicler Pedro Simón. Magdalena of Guatavita Noncetá Usaca Zoratama...
Muisca worshipped their gods at sacred sites, both natural, such as Lake Guatavita, the Siecha Lakes and Lake Tota and constructed; the Sun and Moon Temples...
initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from...
exception to please the gods for good harvests and prosperity. Lake Guatavita, Guatavita, was the location where the new zipa would be inaugurated. It became...
gold and float out on a royal barge to the middle of the sacred Lake Guatavita, where he would offer up golden trinkets. This is widely believed to be...
salt mines. He is also known for directing engineering work to drain the Guatavita lagoon between 1822 and 1823. He was baptized in the parish of Santa Virginia...
Tibacuy. The expansion policies of the southern Muisca upset the cacique of Guatavita and he sought help with the zaque in Hunza, Michuá. The northern ruler...
Bronzes (7th century CE) Muisca tunjo on stool, c. 10th–16th century, Lake Guatavita region, Altiplano Cundiboyacense Robert Campin, the Mérode Altarpiece...
suicide and infanticide by drowning herself and her son in sacred Lake Guatavita. In the times before the Spanish conquest of present-day Colombia, the...
Lozano Born Liliana Andrea Lozano Garzón (1978-09-28)September 28, 1978 Guatavita Died (2009-01-10)January 10, 2009 (aged 30) Pradera Cause of death Gunshot...
El Dorado about the mythical El Dorado, that he situated not in Lake Guatavita as is currently accepted to have been the site of the inauguration of...
described in the legend of El Dorado, which occasionally took place at Lake Guatavita. In this ritual, the new chief (zipa), who was aboard a raft and covered...
Chocó Cabo Marzo Ensenada de Utría Los Katíos Cundinamarca Chingaza Lake Guatavita Rocas de Suesca Guainía Atabapo River Cerros de Mavecure La Guajira Alta...
Chocó Cabo Marzo Ensenada de Utría Los Katíos Cundinamarca Chingaza Lake Guatavita Rocas de Suesca Guainía Atabapo River Cerros de Mavecure La Guajira Alta...
de toros Agustín Barona , Palmira. Plaza de toros La Real Maestranza, Guatavita. Plaza de toros de Quito, Quito. Plaza de toros de Acho, Lima. 2nd oldest...
tallest waterfalls in the world Cucunubá, wool capital of Colombia Lake Guatavita Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá Sumapaz Páramo Tequendama Falls Tominé Reservoir...
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