10 Facts About Zoratama

Zoratama, spelled as Soratama, was a Muisca woman and the lover of Spanish conquistador Lazaro Fonte.

Zoratama's story reminds of the North American indigenous Pocahontas who married John Rolfe after saving the life of John Smith.

Together with Lazaro Fonte, Zoratama was forced in exile and settled in Pasca, Cundinamarca, in the south of the Muisca territory.

Zoratama's rule extended over the Bogota savanna and neighbouring mountains of the Eastern Ranges with southernmost village Pasca, bordered to the south by the territories of the Sutagao people.

Zoratama was born in the town of Guatavita in the Muisca Confederation.

Zoratama moved to the capital of the southern Muisca, Bacata before the Spanish conquest.

Zoratama stayed in Bacata and was found by the troops of De Quesada.

The centre of Pasca was deserted as well, as the inhabitants feared the Spanish conquerors, and Fonte and Zoratama were left in one of the bohios of the village.

Zoratama formed part of the army of Hernan Perez de Quesada, brother of Gonzalo.

Zoratama went further north to her hometown Guatavita and according to legend she drowned herself and her son in Lake Guatavita, like the cacica Guatavita had done centuries before.