Tegua people
Total population | |
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0 Guayupe |
The Tegua or Tecua were an
The territories of the Tegua stretched from Macanal, Boyacá in the west to Aguazul in the east and from Berbeo in the north to Villanueva in the south, on the eastern flanks of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.
Knowledge of the Tegua is scarce,
Etymology
The name of the people Tegua, originally meaning "boy",[5] is presently a word in Colombian Spanish and means "shaman" or "witchdoctor", referring to the advanced knowledge the Tegua had of medicinal plants.[1][3][6]
Tegua territory
The Tegua inhabited the area of the lower and central
Municipalities belonging to Tegua territories
Name | Department | Altitude (m) urban centre |
Map |
---|---|---|---|
Campohermoso | Boyacá | 1100 | |
Páez | Boyacá | 1300 | |
Berbeo | Boyacá | 1335 | |
Miraflores | Boyacá | 1432 | |
Muisca )
|
Boyacá | 1680 | |
San Luis de Gaceno | Boyacá | 395 | |
Santa María | Boyacá | 850 | |
Aguazul (shared with Achagua) |
Casanare | 290 | |
Recetor (shared with Achagua) |
Casanare | 800 | |
Chámeza (shared with Achagua) |
Casanare | 1150 | |
Sabanalarga | Casanare | 450 | |
Villanueva | Casanare | 420 |
Description
De Piedrahita has written that the Tegua spoke another language and looked different from the Muisca.[3]
As noted by Pedro Simón, the Tegua had a diet formed by
The chroniclers of the 17th century describe a Tegua woman with the assigned name La Cardeñosa, as a beautiful Tegua.[6][11]
The first contact with the Tegua was made in 1538 by Juan de San Martín.
Names of Tegua caciques are reinstalled as street names of Campohermoso; Pirazica, Yayogua, Onayomba and Yapompo.[4][10]
See also
- Muisca
- U'wa
- Guayupe
References
- ^ a b c d e (in Spanish) Historia de los Teguas
- ^ (in Spanish) Official website Miraflores
- ^ a b c d (in Spanish) Las esmeraldas de Colombia
- ^ a b (in Spanish) Los Teguas - El Tiempo
- ^ (in Spanish) Curanderos, contras y culebras
- ^ a b (in Spanish) Tesoros legendarios
- ^ (in Spanish) Inspección Arqueológica en Territorio Tegua
- ^ (in Spanish) Los pueblos indígenas del territorio Colombiano
- Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
- ^ a b (in Spanish) Campohermoso rescata su memoria histórica - El Tiempo
- ^ a b c d (in Spanish) Historia de Campohermoso
- ^ (in Spanish) La yuca, alimento prehispánico