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...

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

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

Simón elaborated on this ceremony, claiming that it took place at Lake Guatavita near Bogotá, and that the gold dust was offered as a sacrifice to a supernatural...

"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...

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

Zipaquirá and Sesquilé salt mines. Wiesner is also known for draining the Guatavita lagoon between 1822 and 1823. Wiesner was baptized in the parish of Santa...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

department of Boyacá and Ubalá in the east, Gama and Junín in the south and Guatavita in the west. The name Gachetá comes from Muysccubun and means "behind...

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...

Cuchavira at sacred Lake Guatavita, Colombia....

Tibacuy. The expansion policies of the southern Muisca upset the cacique of Guatavita and he sought help with the zaque in Hunza, Michuá. The northern ruler...

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