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Muisca
The Muisca are an indigenous group of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibcha language family, also called Muysca and Mosca. As one out of four advanced civilizations of the Americas (apart from the Aztec, Mayas, and Incas), they were encountered by conquistadors ordered by the Spanish Empire in 1537 at the time of the conquest. Subgroupings of the Muisca were...
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Muisca octonotata
speciesMuisca octonotata
Muisca cylindricollis
speciesMuisca cylindricollis
Muisca bitaeniata
speciesMuisca bitaeniata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 858737.