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Muisca
Muisca refers to a nation of the Chibchan Culture that formed the Muisca Confederation encountered by the Spanish at the time of the conquest of what is now part of central Colombia in 1537. The Muisca comprised two confederations: the Hunza, whose sovereign was the Zaque and the Bacata, whose sovereign was the Zipa. Both confederations were located in the Highlands of modern-day Cundinamarca and Boyaca (Altiplano Cundiboyacense) in the central area of the Andean Easter Colombian Range.
It spanned the area of 46.972 km, (slightly larger than Switzerland with 41.285 km) from the North of Boyaca to the Sumapaz ...
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