Indigenous Peolple In Colombia

Indigenous People in Colombia
When the new conquerors arrived, there were different cultural groups. The three main ethnic groups were the Quimbayas, the Chibchas and the Caribis. The most advancescultures were the Muiscas and the Taironas that belonged to the Chibchas group. They also suffered a lot of aggression and were forced to abandon their lands.
The Quimbayas ancient inhabitants ofthe region, disappeared by the tenth century and we know few things about them. Goldsmith's technology and the perfection of its objects we can infer that this culture had cultural development,corresponding to a chieftainship. Since time not yet determined exactly, to about the tenth century, Quimbaya culture inhabited the broad valley of the Cauca River region now occupied by the departments ofCaldas, Quindio and Risaralda. They were really good at agriculture and mining.
The Chibchas mainly lived in the departments of Boyacá and Cundinamarca, in Colombia nowadays. Scientists say that theyimmigrated to cundiboyacense plateau between 5500 and 1000 BC. The Taironas were an ethnic group who achieved special technological levels and one of the few groups that has survived. Muiscas werereally good at agriculture, hunting and fishing, commerce, textile, and mining.
Caribis, the Name that was given to them by the Spanish people, it means cannibal. They dressed much like the Arawaks.They dyed their bodies with a red dye called roucou. The Spaniards, believing that was their natural color, started the legend of a red-skinned race.
The oldest internal armed conflict made thatthousands of indigenous people in Colombia fled their lands to escape the brutal treatment of warring armed groups. The struggle to survive and preserve ancient traditions in cities and towns far awayfrom their homes is an often unnoticed casualty of the situation of this second largest group of internally displaced people. Colombia’s Constitutional Court says nearly one-third of the country’s...