The Sugamuxi Province ( Spanish pronunciation: [suɣaˈmuksi] ) is a subregion of the Colombian Department of Boyacá . The subregion is formed by 13 municipalities .
3-636: The name of the province comes from Sugamuxi , the last iraca of the Muisca and means in Chibcha : "Dwelling of the Sun". Sugamuxi Province comprises 13 municipalities: This Boyacá Department location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sugamuxi Sugamuxi (died 1539) was the last iraca ; cacique of the sacred City of the Sun Suamox . Sugamuxi, presently called Sogamoso,
6-622: The successor of Nompanim , as cacique of Suamox. After the bloody confrontation of the zaque Quemuenchatocha and zipa Nemequene , Sugamuxi decided to stay neutral and in favour of peace between the two ever battling parts of the Muisca Confederation. The seat of Sugamuxi was the Sun Temple in Sogamoso, that was destroyed by soldiers of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada in September 1537. At
9-778: Was an important city in the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the times before the Spanish conquistadors reached the central highlands of the Colombian Andes . Fellow Muisca rulers of other territories within the Muisca Confederation were Tundama in Tundama , zaque Aquiminzaque in Hunza and zipa Sagipa in Bacatá . Sugamuxi was
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