Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias

Epic poem written in the late sixteenth century by Juan de Castellanos

Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias

Juan de Castellanos

Author| Juan de Castellanos
Country| Colombia
Language| Spanish
Subject| Spanish conquest of Colombia
Spanish conquest of Venezuela
indigenous groups in Colombia
indigenous groups in Venezuela
Genre| Poem
Set in| Colombia, Venezuela

Publication date

| Late 16th century
Pages| 567
Website| Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (Google Books)

Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias is an epic poem written in the late sixteenth century by Juan de Castellanos.[1][2]

## Description[edit]

The work gives a detailed account of the colonization of the Caribbean and the territories in present-day Colombia and Venezuela. It describes the settlement companies and foundation of cities as well as vivid depictions of indigenous cultures, such as the Muisca, and natural history, making this text an important early chronicle of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Besides its historical value, it is notable for the use of multiple Renaissance-era literary styles, including the elegy, epic, pilgrimage tale, pastoral romance, chivalric romance and other literary forms.

The book contains one of the earliest descriptions of the New World species potato (Solanum colombianum), an unknown plant in the Old World before the discovery of the Americas by Europeans.[3]

## See also[edit]

* Colombia portal
* History portal
* Literature portal

* Spanish conquest of the Muisca
* Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, El Carnero

## References[edit]

1. ^ Becco, Horacio Jorge. 1991. Crónicas de la Naturaleza del Nuevo Mundo, 148. Cuadernos Lagoven, Lagoven, S.A. Caracas.
2. ^ Hernández Caballero, Serafín. 1998. Gran Enciclopedia de Venezuela. Editorial Globe, C.A. Caracas.
3. ^ Rodriguez, Francisco Javier. s.a.. Interpretación del 'Las Elegías' de Juan de Castellanos. Accessed 2016-08-26.

## External links[edit]

* (in Spanish) Elegías de Varones Ilustres de Indias \- Complete text \- Google Books

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Muisca

Topics

| General|

* Agriculture
* Architecture
* Art
* Astronomy
* Calendar
* Cuisine
* Economy
* Mummification
* Music
* Muysccubun
* Mythology
* Numerals
* Religion
* Society
* Toponyms
* Warfare
* Women

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Specific|

* Battle of Pasca (~1470)
* Battle of Chocontá (~1490)
* Chicha
* Duit
* Emeralds
* Muisca raft
* Ruana
* Tejo
* Tunjo
* Zoratama

The Salt People|

* Zipaquirá
* Nemocón
* Tausa
* Sesquilé

Geography and history

| Altiplano
Cundiboyacense|

* Bogotá River
* Frío
* Fucha
* Juan Amarillo
* Soacha
* Teusacá
* Torca
* Tunjuelo
* Bogotá savanna
* Suba Hills
* Wetlands
* Eastern Hills
* Flora & fauna
* Suárez River
* Ubaté-Chiquinquirá Valley

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Neighbouring areas|

* Ocetá Páramo
* Tenza Valley

History|

| Prehistory (<10,000 BP)|

* Lake Humboldt
* El Abra
* Tibitó
* Sueva
* Tequendama

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Lithic (10,000 - 2800 BP)|

* Piedras del Tunjo
* Checua
* Galindo
* Nemocón
* Sáchica
* Aguazuque
* Lake Herrera
* El Infiernito

Ceramic (>800 BC)|

* Herrera (800 BC - 800)
* Early Muisca (800 - 1200)
* Muisca Confederation (~1450 - 1540)
* Cabildo Mayor (>2002)

Religion and mythology

| Deities|

* Chiminigagua
* Bachué
* Chía
* Sué
* Bochica
* Huitaca
* Chibchacum
* Cuchavira
* Nencatacoa
* Chaquén
* Chibafruime
* Guahaioque

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Sacred sites|

| Built|

* Sun Temple
* Moon Temple
* Cojines del Zaque
* Goranchacha Temple
* Hunzahúa Well

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Natural|

* Fúquene
* Guasca
* Guatavita
* Iguaque
* Siecha
* Suesca
* Tota
* Ubaque
* Tequendama Falls

Mythology|

| Myths|

* El Dorado
* Monster of Lake Tota

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Mythological figures|

* Goranchacha
* Idacansás
* Pacanchique
* Thomagata

Caciques and neighbours

| Northern caciques|

| zaque of Hunza|

* Hunzahúa
* Michuá
* Quemuenchatocha
* Aquiminzaque

|

iraca of Suamox|

* Nompanim
* Sugamuxi

cacique of Tundama |

* Tundama

Southern caciques|

| zipa of Bacatá|

* Meicuchuca
* Saguamanchica
* Nemequene
* Tisquesusa
* Sagipa

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cacique of Turmequé|

* Diego de Torres y Moyachoque

Neighbours|

| Chibcha-speaking|

* U'wa
* Sutagao
* Guane
* Lache

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Arawak-speaking|

* Achagua
* Tegua
* Guayupe

Cariban-speaking|

* Panche
* Muzo
* Yarigui

Spanish conquest

| Conquistadors|

| Major|

* Gonzalo de Quesada
* Hernán de Quesada
* Baltasar Maldonado
* Gonzalo Suárez Rendón
* Juan de Céspedes
* Juan de San Martín

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Minor|

* Antonio Díaz de Cardoso
* Antonio de Lebrija
* Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano
* Gonzalo García Zorro
* Gonzalo Macías
* Hernán Venegas Carrillo
* Juan de Albarracín
* Juan del Junco
* Juan Tafur
* Lázaro Fonte
* Luis Lanchero
* Martín Galeano
* Martín Yañéz Tafur
* Miguel Holguín y Figueroa
* Ortún Velázquez de Velasco
* Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela
* Pedro Ruíz Corredor

Neighbouring conquests|

* Conquest of the Chibchan Nations
* Conquest of the Muzo
* Conquest of the Panche
* Battle of Tocarema (1538)

Research and collections

| Scholars|

* Acosta
* Acosta Samper
* De Aguado
* Arango
* Broadbent
* De Castellanos
* Celis
* Correal
* Duquesne
* Freyle
* Friede
* Gamboa
* Groot
* Hammen
* Humboldt
* Izquierdo
* Langebaek
* De Lugo
* Ocampo
* De Piedrahita
* De Quesada
* Reichel-Dolmatoff
* Schrimpff
* Simón
* Triana
* Uricoechea
* Zerda

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Publications|

* Elegías (1589)
* El Carnero (1638)
* Epítome (1889)

Research institutes|

* ICANH
* Universidad Nacional
* Universidad de los Andes
* Universidad La Javeriana
* University of Pittsburgh
* UPTC

Collections|

* Museo del Oro
* Archaeology Museum of Sogamoso
* Archaeology Museum of Pasca
* Metropolitan Museum of Art

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