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List of conquistadors in Colombia

The Spanish Empire
(1500)

This is a list of conquistadors who were active in the conquest of terrains that presently belong to Colombia. The nationalities listed refer to the state the conquistador was born into. Granada and Castile are currently part of Spain, but were separate states at the time of birth of the early conquistadors.

Important conquistadors and explorers were Alonso de Ojeda, who landed first at Colombian soil and founded the first settlement Santa Cruz,[1] Rodrigo de Bastidas, who founded the oldest still remaining city Santa Marta, Pedro de Heredia, who founded the important city of Cartagena in 1533, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, who was the leader of the first and main expedition into the Andes (1536–1538), with his brother second in command and many other conquistadors, 80% of whom who didn't survive,[2][3] and Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar who entered the Colombian interior from the northwest and south respectively.

Pre-Columbian peoples, civilisations and cultures of four language groups; Arawakan, Carib, Chibcha, and the isolated Páez language, existed in Colombia with after the Muisca, the Tairona, Calima, Quimbaya and Zenú as important ones

Conquistadors in Colombia

Exploration & conquest of Colombia
Legend:
• Leader – minor captain
Notes:
• >1539 expeditions in Llanos Orientales not shown
• expedition Pedro de Ursúa not shown
A map of exploration routes of
Alonso de Ojeda (1499–1502 & 1509–10)
 Francisco Pizarro (1509–10)
4th voyage of Christopher Columbus, who touched upon later named after him Colombian, now Panamanian lands where he encountered the Kuna people
(1502–04)
Map of exploration routes of
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1513)
 Francisco Pizarro
 Martín Fernández de Enciso
Map of exploration routes of
Sebastián de Belalcázar (1514–1539)
 Jorge Robledo
 Gaspar de Rodas
 Juan de Ampudia
 Baltasar Maldonado
Routes of conquest in Colombia with the former Muisca Confederation in the heart of Colombia in orange
by Agustín Codazzi, 1890

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Although the country Colombia is named after Columbus, he has never seen the present country of Colombia.
    Panama, where he disembarked in 1503, was part of (Gran) Colombia until 1903
  2. ^ Executed by the Governor of New Granada
  3. ^ Not the same as Juan Maldonado, who was only 11 in 1536
  4. ^ Murdered on expedition by some of his men

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k (in Spanish) Personajes de la Conquista a América – Banco de la República
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w (in Spanish) List of conquistadors of the expedition led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada – Banco de la República
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k (in Spanish) Conquista rápida y saqueo cuantioso de Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
  4. ^ (in Spanish) Alonso de Ojeda – Banco de la República
  5. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia – Martín Fernández de Enciso
  6. ^ (in Spanish) Murder of the son of La Gaitana by Pedro de Añasco
  7. ^ (in Spanish) Baltasar Maldonado – Soledad Acosta Samper – Banco de la República
  8. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.88
  9. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.93
  10. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.94
  11. ^ (in Spanish) Juan de Céspedes – Banco de la República
  12. ^ (in Spanish) Biography Juan de Céspedes – Banco de la República
  13. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.69
  14. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.153
  15. ^ (in Spanish) Luis Lanchero – Banco de la República
  16. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.56
  17. ^ (in Spanish) Pedro Ruiz Corredor – Soledad Acosta Samper – Banco de la República
  18. ^ (in Spanish) Juan Tafur – Banco de la República – Soledad Acosta de Samper
  19. ^ (in Spanish) Martín Yañéz Tafur – Banco de la República – Soledad Acosta Samper
  20. ^ (in Spanish) Antonio Díaz de Cardoso – Banco de la República – Soledad Acosta Samper
  21. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.173
  22. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.84
  23. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.61
  24. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.144
  25. ^ (in Spanish) Hernán Venegas Carrillo – Banco de la República
  26. ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.xii
  27. ^ (in Spanish) Gaspar de Rodas – Banco de la República
  28. ^ Jaramillo Mejía, William (1996), Antioquia bajo los Austrias, Volume 1, Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispánica, p. 1-1034, ISBN 978-958-9004-40-1, retrieved 2017-03-08
  29. ^ (in Spanish) Biography Juan Rodríguez Freyle – Banco de la República
  30. ^ (in Spanish) El Carnero – semilla de nuestro periodismo – El Tiempo

Bibliography

Further reading