Muisca cuisineMuisca cuisine describes the food and preparation the Muisca elaborated. The Muisca were an advanced civilization inhabiting the central highlands of the Colombian Andes (Altiplano Cundiboyacense) before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca in the 1530s. Their diet and cuisine consisted of many endemic flora and fauna of Colombia. The main product of the Muisca was maize, in various forms. The advantage of maize was that it could be grown in the various climatic zones the Muisca territories experienced.
Muisca agricultureThe Muisca agriculture describes the agriculture of the Muisca, the advanced civilisation that was present in the times before the Spanish conquest on the high plateau in the Colombian Andes; the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The Muisca were a predominantly agricultural society with small-scale farmfields, part of more extensive terrains. To diversify their diet, they traded mantles, gold, emeralds and salt for fruits, vegetables, coca, yopo and cotton cultivated in lower altitude warmer terrains populated by their neighbours, the Muzo, Panche, Guane, Guayupe, Lache, Sutagao and U'wa.
Muisca artThis article describes the art produced by the Muisca. The Muisca established one of the four grand civilisations of the pre-Columbian Americas on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in present-day central Colombia. Their various forms of art have been described in detail and include pottery, textiles, body art, hieroglyphs and rock art. While their architecture was modest compared to the Inca, Aztec and Maya civilisations, the Muisca are best known for their skilled goldworking.
GuatavitaGuatavita est une municipalité située dans le département de Cundinamarca, en Colombie. Elle est située à au nord-est de Bogota, à une altitude de . On y trouve le lac de Guatavita. En plus de son centre urbain, Guatavita comprend quinze veredas : Amoladero ; Carbonera Alta ; Carbonera Baja ; Chaleche ; Choche ; Corales ; Guándita ; Hatillo ; Montecillo ; Montequiva ; Potreritos ; Potrero Largo ; Santa María ; Tominé de Blancos ; Tominé de Indios. Catégorie:Ville en Colombie Catégorie:Municipalité dans le d
ZipaquiráZipaquirá est une municipalité du département de Cundinamarca en Colombie, connue pour sa cathédrale de sel. Elle a été fondée le par Luis Enríquez. Cathédrale de sel ; Cathédrale de la Sainte Trinité et de Saint Antoine de Padoue El Abra, site préhistorique et d'art rupestre. Sport Egan Bernal (1997-), vainqueur du Tour de France 2019. Stella Castro (1962-), coureuse de fond, multiple championne d'athlétisme. Efraín Forero (1930-2022), coureur cycliste colombien. Catégorie:Ville en Colombie Catégorie:Munic
GuascaGuasca is a Colombian town and municipality in the Guavio Province, part of the Cundinamarca Department located approximately 55 km from Bogotá passing through the town of La Calera, Cundinamarca or 65 km passing through Sopó. Guasca borders the municipalities Tocancipá and Guatavita in the north, Junín in the east, in the south La Calera and in the west Sopó. Before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca of the central highlands of the Colombian Andes, the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, the area was inhabited by the Muisca who spoke Chibcha.
SubachoqueSubachoque is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Western Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The municipality is situated on the Bogotá savanna with the urban centre at an altitude of at a distance of from the capital Bogotá. Subachoque is part of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá and borders Zipaquirá, Tabio and Tenjo in the east, Zipaquirá and Pacho in the north, San Francisco and Supatá in the west and Madrid and El Rosal in the south.
IracaThe iraca, sometimes spelled iraka, was the ruler and high priest of Sugamuxi in the confederation of the Muisca who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense; the central highlands of the Colombian Andes. Iraca can also refer to the Iraka Valley over which they ruled. Important scholars who wrote about the iraca were Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Alexander von Humboldt and Ezequiel Uricoechea. In the centuries before the Spanish conquistadores entered central Colombia in the 1530s, the valleys of the Eastern Ranges were ruled by four main leaders and several independent caciques.
ChibchasLes Chibchas ou Tchibtchas ou Muiscas sont une communauté précolombienne de l'actuelle Colombie, vivant autour de l'actuelle Bogota, conquise en 1536 par le conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, à la recherche de l'Eldorado. La langue chibcha, plus souvent appelée muisca, fait partie de la famille chibchane s’étendant d’Amérique centrale (Costa Rica) au cap Guayaquil (à la frontière entre l’Équateur et le Pérou actuel).
Site archéologique de TequendamaTequendama is a preceramic and ceramic archaeological site located southeast of Soacha, Cundinamarca, Colombia, a couple of kilometers east of Tequendama Falls. It consists of multiple evidences of late Pleistocene to middle Holocene population of the Bogotá savanna, the high plateau in the Colombian Andes. Tequendama was inhabited from around 11,000 years BP, and continuing into the prehistorical, Herrera and Muisca periods, making it the oldest site of Colombia, together with El Abra, located north of Zipaquirá.
