Lake Guatavita (Spanish: Laguna Guatavita) is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé in the Almeidas...

Guatavita is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Guavio Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Guatavita is located 75 km northeast of the...

initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged himself in Lake Guatavita. The location for El Dorado was inferred from myths, which inspired several...

Tibacuy Ubaté District: Ubaté, Cucunubá, Simijaca, Susa Guatavita District: Gachetá, Guatavita and Suesca, Chocontá, Teusacá, Sesquilé, Guasca, Sopó, Usaquén...

"hot water". Sesquilé is adjacent to Tominé Reservoir and nearby Lake Guatavita, the suspected site of the El Dorado legend. The Muisca raft represents...

Muisca worshipped their gods at sacred sites, both natural, such as Lake Guatavita, the Siecha Lakes and Lake Tota and constructed; the Sun and Moon Temples...

adjacent to the municipalities of Sesquilé and Guatavita. The reservoir was completed in 1967. The town of Guatavita was intentionally flooded for the construction...

the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Guatavita and Tocancipá in the south, Sesquilé and Guatavita in the east, Nemocón in the west and Suesca in...

Temple Cojines del Zaque Goranchacha Temple Hunzahúa Well Natural Fúquene Guatavita Iguaque Siecha Suesca Tota Monster Tequendama Falls Northern caciques...

soldier in the army of Pedro de Ursúa, Rodríguez Freyle knew the cacique of Guatavita and the founder of Bogotá: Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. His major work...

exception to please the gods for good harvests and prosperity. Lake Guatavita, Guatavita, was the location where the new zipa would be inaugurated. It became...

initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from...

the sacred Lake Guatavita and the later legend of El Dorado, as narrated by early Spanish chronicler Pedro Simón. Magdalena of Guatavita Noncetá Usaca Zoratama...

Chocó Cabo Marzo Ensenada de Utría Los Katíos Cundinamarca Chingaza Lake Guatavita Rocas de Suesca Guainía Atabapo River Cerros de Mavecure La Guajira Alta...

gold and float out on a royal barge to the middle of the sacred Lake Guatavita, where he would offer up golden trinkets. This is widely believed to be...

or man of gold. The Muisca, skilled goldworkers, held a ritual in Lake Guatavita where the new zipa would cover himself in gold dust and jump from a raft...

suicide and infanticide by drowning herself and her son in sacred Lake Guatavita. In the times before the Spanish conquest of present-day Colombia, the...

Bronzes (7th century CE) Muisca tunjo on stool, c. 10th–16th century, Lake Guatavita region, Altiplano Cundiboyacense Robert Campin, the Mérode Altarpiece...

described in the legend of El Dorado, which occasionally took place at Lake Guatavita. In this ritual, the new chief (zipa), who was aboard a raft and covered...

Cundinamarca 12,442 15,478 564 Guataquí Cundinamarca 2,489 2,689 565 Guatavita Cundinamarca 6,685 6,958 566 Guayabal de Síquima Cundinamarca 3,652 3...

passing through Sopó. Guasca borders the municipalities Tocancipá and Guatavita in the north, Junín in the east, in the south La Calera and in the west...

salt mines. He is also known for directing engineering work to drain the Guatavita lagoon between 1822 and 1823. He was baptized in the parish of Santa Virginia...

tallest waterfalls in the world Cucunubá, wool capital of Colombia Lake Guatavita Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá Sumapaz Páramo Tequendama Falls Tominé Reservoir...

Chocó Cabo Marzo Ensenada de Utría Los Katíos Cundinamarca Chingaza Lake Guatavita Rocas de Suesca Guainía Atabapo River Cerros de Mavecure La Guajira Alta...

Cuchavira at sacred Lake Guatavita, Colombia....

Gachancipá, Nemocón, Pacho, Sopó, Suesca, Tabio and Tocancipá. Canton of Guatavita: Guatavita, Gachetá, Gachalá, Guasca, Medina, Sesquilé, Upía and Cabuyaro. Canton...

Chocó Cabo Marzo Ensenada de Utría Los Katíos Cundinamarca Chingaza Lake Guatavita Rocas de Suesca Guainía Atabapo River Cerros de Mavecure La Guajira Alta...

his body in gold and. from his Muisca raft. he offered treasures to the Guatavita goddess in the middle of the sacred lake. This old Muisca tradition became...

El Dorado about the mythical El Dorado, that he situated not in Lake Guatavita as is currently accepted to have been the site of the inauguration of...

with the cacique of Guatavita. Saguamanchica, with 50,000 soldiers, decided on a massive attack on hoa Michuá, crossing Guatavita and Chocontá, after...