Completar frases Pre-Columbian tribesVersión en línea General features of the Precolumbian tribes por Freddy Tejedor 1 HydraulicEngineering CentralTerritory Muisca GoldEmeralds Caribbean Goldsmith LinguisticFamilies CundiboyacenseHighland Arawak terraces SierraNevadaSantaMarta Hunza Bogota ElDorado Tayrona ValleDelCauca Chibcha CoffeeRegion Sinú Pre Columbian tribes While all Aboriginal cultures of Colombia were many , these were grouped according to the indigenous languages spoken ; these are called an in our country we can refer to three : the , the and the . The Chibchas They are considered today as the family of furthest splendour and cultural development . They occupied of the country and part of the Caribbean region , particularly the and divided into several groups mainly the and . The Muiscas They were located in the . They were large cultivators and very good traders . The political and administrative organisation on which they counted was of several chiefdoms , being the two most outstanding : Bacata , in the present territory of and , today Tunja ; and therefore , there were two main chiefs ( caciques ) , the Zipa for Bacata and the Zake for Hunza . Among their ceremonies are now the ritual of , when the Zipa and Zaque covered their entire body with gold dust and then came to bathe in the Lagoon of Guatavita , located in the territory of what is now Cundinamarca . While this ritual was performed other members of the tribe threw pieces carved in into the waters as an offering to the gods . The Tayrona Is a group that still remains in Colombia and does so through their descendants the Kogi . Taking advantage of the characteristics of the Sierra , they built to irrigate crops . The Quimbayas They are the most outstanding Caribbean culture that lived not just in the northern region of Colombia but also in the current in the centre of the country . They were a warrior culture ; this explained the need for many Chiefs . As for their remains , we find that apart from being good weavers and manipulating ceramics finely , they stood by their work among their most memorable traces , we have the well - known " Poporo " and hundreds of push - ups , bracelets and jewellery . Arawaks : Calimas They join a set of ancient cultures that inhabited the Department of , but without cohabiting simultaneously and showed advances in gold - work and pottery . Zenú Mainly located in the area of the Department of Cordoba . The Zenú society was organised in 103 chiefdoms , distributed in different territories , generating a wide economy exchange . The Zenues were notable for their advances in , this fact that can be verified in the construction of a system of irrigation canals that took advantage of the floods of the rivers San Jorge , , Cauca and Magdalena .
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