Confederation · approximate800 CE – 1540 · 740 years
Chibcha / Muisca Confederation
Overview
Muisca Confederations were loose confederations of different Muisca chiefdoms in the Eastern Andean highlands of what is today Colombia before the Spanish conquest of northern South America. These unions, centred around main chiefdoms recognised by smaller ones, were not a single, even loose, muisca confederation of chiefdoms, but multiple, independent regional entities. The area, presently called Altiplano Cundiboyacense, comprised the current departments of Boyacá, Cundinamarca and minor parts of Santander.
Wikipedia: Muisca Confederations (political units)·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1492:Muisca
- SNAPSHOT1500
- MATCHEDMuisca
- POLITY TYPEconfederation
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Mongol Conquests1206–1368World-changing · 40M dead
- Mongol Conquest of China1205–79World-changing · 20M dead
- World-changing · 15M dead
- World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Timurid Invasions1368–1405World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750World-changing · 5.0M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 800 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Chibcha / Muisca Confederation (800 CE – 1540). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-chibcha-muisca · Sources & methodology