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.
^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
^Executed by the Governor of New Granada
^Not the same as Juan Maldonado, who was only 11 in 1536
^Murdered on expedition by some of his men
References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k(in Spanish) Personajes de la Conquista a América – Banco de la República
^ 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
^ a b c d e f g h i j k(in Spanish) Conquista rápida y saqueo cuantioso de Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
^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
^(in Spanish) El Carnero – semilla de nuestro periodismo – El Tiempo
Bibliography
Rodríguez Freyle, Juan; Achury Valenzuela, Darío (1979) [1859 (1638)], El Carnero – Conquista i descubrimiento del nuevo reino de Granada de las Indias Occidentales del mar oceano, i fundacion de la ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogota (PDF) (in Spanish), Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch, pp. 1–598, retrieved 2016-11-21
Further reading
Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1979 [1888 (1539)], pp. 81–97, retrieved 2016-11-24
Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo (1576), Memoria de los descubridores, que entraron conmigo a descubrir y conquistar el Reino de Granada (in Spanish), retrieved 2016-07-08
De Castellanos, Juan (1857) [1589], Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (in Spanish), pp. 1–567, retrieved 2016-07-08
Simón, Pedro (1892) [1626], Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias occidentales (1882–92) vol.1–5 (in Spanish), retrieved 2016-07-08
Fernández de Piedrahita, Lucas (1688), Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada (in Spanish), retrieved 2016-07-08
Acosta, Joaquín (1848), Compendio histórico del descubrimiento y colonización de la Nueva Granada en el siglo décimo sexto – Historical overview of discovery and colonization of New Granada in the sixteenth century, Paris: Beau Press, pp. 1–460, OCLC 23030434, retrieved 2016-07-08