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The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an Indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family , also called Muysca and Mosca . [ 3 ]
The Chibchan languages (also known as Chibchano) make up a language family indigenous to the Isthmo-Colombian Area, which extends from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia and includes populations of these countries as well as Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Chibcha, Mosca, Muisca, [4] Muysca (*/ˈmɨska/ *[ˈmʷɨska] [5]), or Muysca de Bogotá [6] is a language spoken by the Muisca people of the Muisca Confederation, one of the many indigenous cultures of the Americas. The Muisca inhabit the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of what today is the country of Colombia.
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 ...
The Chitarero were an indigenous Chibcha-speaking people in the Andes of north-eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela.They were responsible for the death of the German conquistador Ambrosius Ehinger in 1533 by means of poisoned arrows.
The Muisca people, also known as the Chibcha, [1] were situated at 9000 ft elevation in the eastern Andes of Colombia near modern day Bogotá, the town of Tunja, and Lake Guatavita. [2] While most Muisca villages had a chief and priests, the Muisca were generally an egalitarian agricultural people.
The Chimilas or Ette Ennaka [1] are an Indigenous people in the Andes of north-eastern Colombia. Their Chimila language is part of the Chibcha language family, of which there were estimated to be around 1000 speakers in 1998. [1] At the time of the Spanish Conquest the Ariguaní River valley was the strategic centre of their territory. [1]
In the Chibcha language spoken by the Muisca people, the word Güechá has a number of possible meanings. The syllable güe may mean "people", "I killed", "house" or "place". ". The syllable chá may mean "man" or "ma