See also: Muisca and Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia
Muisca Confederation
Muysc Muyquyguamox
c. 800[1]–1540
Flag of the Muisca Confederation
Location of the Muisca Confederation circa 1500; Zipa, Zaque, and Independent territory labelled
Capital
Hunza, Bacatá (Bogotá), and Suamox (Religious capital) (800–1540)
Common languages
Muysccubun
Religion
Muisca religion
Zaque and zipa
• ~1450–1470
zaque Hunzahúa zipa Meicuchuca
• 1470–1490
zaque Saguamanchica zipa Michuá
• 1490–1537
1490–1514
zaque Quemuenchatocha zipa Nemequene
• 1514–1537
zipa Tisquesusa
• 1537–1540 1537–1539
zaque Aquiminzaque zipa Sagipa
Historical era
Pre-Columbian
• Established
c. 800[1]
• Spanish conquest begins
March 1537
• Conquest of Funza (Bacatá)
20 April 1537
• Conquest of Hunza
20 August 1537
• Destruction of the Sun Temple
September 1537
• Foundation of Bogotá Battle of Tocarema
6 August 1538 20 August 1538
• Foundation of Tunja Death of Tundama
6 August 1539 December 1539
• Execution of Aquiminzaque
1540
Area
1537
46,972 km2 (18,136 sq mi)
Population
• Early 16th century[2]
2−3 million
• Density
42–63/km2 (108.8–163.2/sq mi)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Herrera Period
New Kingdom of Granada
Today part of
Colombia - Cundinamarca - Boyacá - Santander
The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (zaques, zipas, iraca, and tundama) 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.
According to some Muisca scholars the Muisca Confederation was one of the best-organized confederations of tribes on the South American continent.[3] Modern anthropologists, such as Jorge Gamboa Mendoza, attribute the present-day knowledge about the confederation and its organization more to a reflection by Spanish chroniclers who predominantly wrote about it a century or more after the Muisca were conquered and proposed the idea of a loose collection of different people with slightly different languages and backgrounds.[4]
^Cite error: The named reference UniNacional was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"La Televisión" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
^(in Spanish) Muisca culture – Historia Universal – accessed 21-04-2016
^Gamboa Mendoza, 2016
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