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Ethnic group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chitarero were an indigenous Chibcha-speaking people in the Andes of north-eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela. They were responsible for the death of the German conquistador Ambrosius Ehinger in 1533 by means of poisoned arrows.
Regions with significant populations | |
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Norte de Santander, Santander, Colombia Táchira, Venezuela | |
Languages | |
Chibcha, Colombian Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish | |
Religion | |
Traditional religion, Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Lache, U'wa, Muisca, Guane |
At the time of the Spanish conquest of the Chibchan Nations, their territory ranged from present-day Táchira (Venezuela) to the northwest and south of Norte de Santander Department and the northeast of Santander Department (Colombia).[1] The Chicamocha River formed a southern boundary, the Valegra a southwestern, and the Surata a southeastern.[2] One of their settlements became the Colombian town of Chinácota; they were primarily known in the area of Pamplona, Colombia. At the refoundation of Pamplona in 1549 there were said to be 200,000 in the area.[3]
They were called "Chitareros" by the Spanish, because of the general custom that the men had to carry hanging from the waist a calabazo or totumo (calabash gourds) with maize wine or chicha as the Spanish called it. Asking what the thing they carried was called, the natives responded that it was a chitarero.
They traded with other peoples in the region, including the Muisca, the Guane and Lache.
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