14 Facts About Miguel Triana

Miguel Triana Ruiz de Cote was a Colombian engineer and Muisca scholar.

Miguel Triana is best known for his 1922 publication La Civilizacion Chibcha; "The Muisca civilisation".

Miguel Triana especially contributed to the knowledge of the religion, society and the creation of rock art throughout the Muisca Confederation.

Miguel Triana was the first Colombian investigator relating the Muisca culture with the pictographs.

Miguel Triana described hundreds of rock paintings and carvings in his book El jeroglifico Chibcha.

Miguel Triana was born on 26 November 1859 in the Granadine Confederation capital Bogota as son of general Domingo de San Vicente y de los Santos Triana Loboguerrero and Dolores Ruiz de Cote.

Miguel Triana had a brother Felipe Triana Ruiz de Cote.

Miguel Triana attended the Colegio del Rosario until age 18 and studied civil and military engineering at the Escuela de Ingenieria del Coronel Antonio de Narvaez where he graduated in 1880.

Miguel Triana worked as an engineer for the train line of Puerto Wilches, finished in 1883, the central northern highway and train tracks in Cucuta and on irrigation projects in the Valley of Sogamoso as part of a study to dewater Lake Tota.

From 1890 Miguel Triana was director of public works in Narino and from 1917 manager of the Municipal Tramway of Bogota.

Miguel Triana was professor in physics, hydraulics, geometry, trigonometry and drawing at the faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional in Bogota.

Miguel Triana was affiliated with various organisations in Colombia, among others: Sociedad Fisico-Literaria de Bogota, El Ateneo, Sociedad de Ingenieros Civiles de los Estados Unidos, Sociedad Colombiana de Ciencias Naturales and the Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros, founded by Triana in 1887.

Miguel Triana was interested in the former inhabitants of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense where he was born and studied the history of the Muisca and in 1922 he published his mayor work La Civilizacion Chibcha Other works are El jeroglifico Chibcha and Las leyendas Chibchas.

Miguel Triana married Juana Echeverri and the couple got one son, Jorge Felipe Triana Echeverri.