Painting of Lake Siecha, 1855Famous Muisca raft a similar raft was found in Lake Siecha but lost due to fire of the ship in the harbour of Bremen
The Siecha Lakes are three glacial lakes located in the Chingaza Natural National Park in Cundinamarca, Colombia. The Andean lakes are considered sacred in the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the area before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca in the 1530s.[3]
The SiechaLakes are three glacial lakes located in the Chingaza Natural National Park in Cundinamarca, Colombia. The Andean lakes are considered sacred...
Muisca religion Guatavita myth Lake Iguaque, another sacred lake of the Muisca Sacred waters SiechaLakes, other lakes implicated in the El Dorado legend...
representative and culturally significant bodies of water are the SiechaLakes, a group of three lakes in the municipality of Guasca. Chuza Reservoir is also located...
worshipped their gods at sacred sites, both natural, such as Lake Guatavita, the SiechaLakes and Lake Tota and constructed; the Sun and Moon Temples in respectively...
loyal to the cacique of Guatavita. In the religion of the Muisca, the SiechaLakes were considered sacred. According to friar and Muisca scholar Bernardo...
emeralds. Important lakes were Lake Guatavita, Lake Iguaque, Lake Fúquene, Lake Tota, the SiechaLakes, Lake Teusacá and Lake Ubaque. The concept of El Dorado...
Monster of Lake Tota Muisca religion Lake Guatavita, Lake Iguaque, Lake Suesca, SiechaLakesLake Tota - Bird Life International - accessed 02-05-2016...
situated not in Lake Guatavita as is currently accepted to have been the site of the inauguration of the new zipa, but in the SiechaLakes in the Chingaza...
lake and named after the Muisca. Muisca religion, Bachué Lake Guatavita, Lake Tota, SiechaLakes "Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque" (in Spanish). Archived...
Lengupá River Upía River Lake Tota, largest lake of Colombia Lake Fúquene Lake Guatavita Lake Herrera Lake Iguaque SiechaLakesLake Suesca La Copa Reservoir...
north of the basin Suesca Lake Guatavita, Lake Herrera, SiechaLakes, Lake Tota (in Spanish) Length, width and depth of Lake Suesca CAR, 1993 Bastidas...
in cool habitats around Pleistocene lakes, of which the humedales in Bogotá, Lake Suesca, Lake Fúquene and Lake Herrera are notable examples. Multiple...
character; the many lakes that existed on the Altiplano; Iguaque, Suesca, Fúquene, Tota, the SiechaLakes, and the most important; Lake Guatavita. It was...
Etymology Chingaza[permanent dead link] (in Spanish) Etymology of the SiechaLakes (in Spanish) Etymology Tibabuyes (in Spanish) Etymology Maiporé Archived...
celebrations at natural areas, such as Lake Guatavita, Lake Iguaque, Lake Tota, Lake Fúquene, Lake Suesca and the SiechaLakes, the Muisca constructed some places...
from Pasca, the subject of this article, and another from Siecha, which was lost. The Siecha raft was the first to be discovered, and it aided in the discovery...
1882 Barranquilla OASM delivery service. It was believed that in the SiechaLake (in the Guasca municipality of the Cundinamarca Department), a difficult...
46-47) states: “[What I want to say, comments Triana, with respect to the lakes and lagoons, is that they were the main shrines of the Indians] (...) the...
cacique jumped into the lake with her son and drowned. The cacique mourning the deaths, ordered to retrieve the bodies from the lake. This history formed...
other Muisca myths exist, such as the legendary El Dorado and the Monster of Lake Tota. Several mythological creatures have been described by the chroniclers:...
well-organized one. The natural resources could not be privatized: woods, lakes, plateaus, rivers and other natural resources were common goods. Chibcha...
himself with 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...
he offered treasures to the Guatavita goddess in the middle of the sacred lake. This old Muisca tradition became the origin of the El Dorado legend. A lowland...
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