Juan Tafur was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people.
12 Facts About Juan Tafur
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Juan Tafur was a cousin of fellow conquistadors Martin Yanez Tafur, Hernan Venegas Carrillo and Pedro Fernandez de Valenzuela.
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Juan Tafur was five times encomendero of Santa Fe de Bogota.
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Juan Tafur received the encomiendas of Pasca, Chipaque and Usaquen.
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Knowledge of the life of Juan Tafur has been provided by the work El Carnero, by chronicler Juan Rodriguez Freyle.
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Juan Tafur was born in the year 1500 in Cordoba, Spain.
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Juan Tafur's parents were Juan Perez Tubera and Isabel Diaz Tafur.
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Juan Tafur participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people and received the encomiendas of Pasca, Usaque, Itaque and Chipaque, where he built the first church in 1538.
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Juan Tafur was five times encomendero of Santa Fe de Bogota: in 1541 succeeding Antonio Diaz de Cardoso and preceding Juan Diaz Hidalgo; from 1546 to 1547 succeeding Juan de Cespedes and succeeded by Pedro de Colmenares; in 1552 between the reigns of Juan Munoz de Collantes and Gonzalo Rodriguez de Ledesma; in 1554 succeeding Gonzalo Garcia Zorro and before Juan Ruiz de Orejuela; and finally in 1559 after the rule of Gonzalo Rodriguez de Ledesma and preceding Antonio Bermudez.
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Juan Tafur committed various atrocities against the indigenous people, including against the Panche people to the west of the Bogota savanna.
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Juan Tafur mistreated the Cacique of Pasca and the Cacique of Chita, whose body he threw at the dogs.
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Juan Tafur was married three times: to an unnamed woman; to Antonia Manuel de Hoyos; and to Francisca de Ulloa.