24 Facts About Muisca people

The Muisca people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family, called Muysca and Mosca.

Subgroupings of the Muisca people were mostly identified by their allegiances to three great rulers: the hoa, centered in Hunza, ruling a territory roughly covering modern southern and northeastern Boyaca and southern Santander; the psihipqua, centered in Muyquyta and encompassing most of modern Cundinamarca, the western Llanos; and the iraca, religious ruler of Suamox and modern northeastern Boyaca and southwestern Santander.

The descendants of the Muisca people are often found in rural municipalities including Cota, Chia, Tenjo, Suba, Engativa, Tocancipa, Gachancipa, and Ubate.

Important contributors to the knowledge about the Muisca people have been their main conquistador, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada; Spanish poet, soldier, and priest Juan de Castellanos ; bishop Lucas Fernandez de Piedrahita and Franciscan Pedro Simon ; and Javier Ocampo Lopez and Gonzalo Correal Urrego .

Scholars agree that the group identified as Muisca people migrated to the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Formative era, as shown by evidence found at Aguazuque and Soacha.

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Muisca people were organized in a confederation that was a loose union of states that each retained sovereignty.

The Muisca people Confederation was one of the biggest and best-organized confederations of tribes on the South American continent.

Muisca people Confederation existed as the union of two lesser confederations.

Muisca people legislation was consuetudinary, that is to say, their rule of law was determined by long-extant customs with the approval of the zipa or zaque.

The Tairona culture and the U'wa, related to the Muisca people culture, speak similar languages, which encouraged trade.

Muisca people had an economy and society considered to have been one of the most powerful of the American Post-Classic stage, mainly because of the precious resources of the area: gold and emeralds.

Muisca people traded their goods at local and regional markets with a system of barter.

Muisca people were an agrarian and ceramic society of the Andes of the north of South America.

Pre-Columbian Muisca people patterns appear in various seals of modern municipalities located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, for instance Sopo and Guatavita, Cundinamarca.

Muisca people culture had certain sports which were part of their rituals.

Muisca people priests were educated from childhood and led the main religious ceremonies.

Cult of the Muisca people centered on two main deities; Sue for the Sun and Chia for the Moon.

The Muisca people territory became the seat of the colonial administration for the New Kingdom of Granada .

The Muisca people used little furniture as they would typically sit on the floor.

Reaction of the chief leaders and the Muisca people did little to change the destiny of the Confederations.

The territory of the Muisca people, located in a fertile plain of the Colombian Andes that contributed to make one of the most advanced South American civilizations, became part of the colonial region named Nuevo Reino de Granada.

Much information about the Muisca people culture was gathered by the Spanish administration and by authors such as Pedro de Aguado and Lucas Fernandez de Piedrahita.

Researchers wrongly concluded that the Muisca people culture inhabited a previously empty land and that all archeological finds could be attributed solely to the Muisca people.

Wenceslao Cabrera Ortiz was the one who concluded that the Muisca people were migrants to the highlands; in 1969 he published on this and reported about excavations at the El Abra archaeological site.