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The Muisca (also called the Chibcha) are an Indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish invasion. The people speak Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family , also called Muysca and Mosca . [ 2 ]
Chibcha group. Chibcha / Muisca / Mosca – extinct language once spoken on the upper plateau of Bogotá and Tunja, department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. Duit dialect – once spoken on the Tunja River and Tundama River. Tunebo / Tame – language now spoken by many tribes living in the area east of the Chibcha tribe. Dialects:
Chibcha, Mosca, Muisca, [4] Muysca (*/ˈmɨska/ *[ˈmʷɨska] [5]), or Muysca de Bogotá [6] is a language spoken by the Muisca people, one of the many indigenous cultures of the Americas. The Muisca inhabit the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of what today is the country of Colombia .
However, faced with the Spanish conquest (and against other situations overall incidence), these tribes used to work together in confederations. Mainly a peaceful group, when the Spanish conquistadors arrived, they defended their territories When the Spanish arrived, the leadership of the tribe was exercised by a cacique named Guarcama.
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.
Cabécar territories in Costa Rica A traditional Cabécar dwelling. The Cabécar are an indigenous group of the remote Talamanca region of eastern Costa Rica.They speak Cabécar, a language belonging to the Chibchan language family of the Isthmo-Colombian Area of lower Central America and northwestern 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] On the Serranía del Perijá mountains the Yukpas were also part of the Chimila confederation of ...
[6] [7] This resulted in tribal warfare between the Cacaoperas and the Nicaraos and was a major factor in how the Cacaoperas became one of the most organized, fierce and battle-hardened tribes in Central America by the time of the Spanish arrival. [8] [9] [10] They also built stone statues representing their chieftain and warriors.