Hernán Venegas Carrillo Manosalvas (1513 – 2 February 1583)Hernán Venegas Carrillo
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conquistador for who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and

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in the New Kingdom of Granada, present-day Colombia. Venegas Carrillo was mayor of Santa Fe de Bogotá for two terms; in 1542 and from 1543 to 1544.

Personal life

Venegas Carrillo was born in Córdoba, Andalusia, around 1513. His parents were Diego Ruiz Venegas Manosalvas and Inés Venegas.Hernán Venegas Carrillo
– Geni Venegas Carrillo was married twice, first to Magdalena of Guatavita, the sister of Sagipa (also named Zaquezazipa), the last Muisca ''

zipa When the Spanish arrived in the central Colombian highlands, the region was organized into the Muisca Confederation, which had two rulers; the ''zipa'' was the ruler of the southern part and based in Muyquytá. The ''hoa'' was the ruler of the ...

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– Geni This was one of the first mestizo marriages conducted in the New Kingdom of Granada. With her Venegas Carrillo had four children: María, Alonso, Isabel and Fernán Venegas.Periplo atlántico del cromosoma "Y" de Hernán Venegas Carrillo Manosalbas
/ref> After the death of his Muisca wife, Venegas Carrillo married Juana Ponce de León and had eight more children with her: Maria, Alonso, Pedro, Luis, Francisco, Juana, Isabel and Inés Venegas Ponce de León. His daughter Maria Venegas Carrillo Ponce de León died in

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Gonzalo García Zorro Gonzalo García Zorro ( 1500 – 1566) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people. García Zorro was ''encomendero'' (mayor) of Santa Fe de Bogotá for seven terms, and received the '' encomiendas' ...

in a duel in 1566. Conquistador Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela was his cousin.Gonzalo García Zorro
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– Soledad Acosta Samper

Biography

Hernán Venegas Carrillo embarked on a ship sailing from

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, Spain to the New World, probably in 1533, in the company of Juan del Junco.Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.75 He was one of the conquistadors who participated in the expedition from Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast to the Muisca Confederation on the

Altiplano Cundiboyacense The Altiplano Cundiboyacense () is a high plateau located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes covering parts of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. The altiplano corresponds to the ancient territory of the Muisca. The Alt ...

.List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
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In 1541, Venegas Carrillo received ownership of the encomiendas of

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Gachetá Gachetá is a municipality and town of Colombia, capital of the Guavio Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre of Gachetá is situated at an altitude of in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The municipality ...

, Chipaleque, Pausa, Tuala, Tuaquira, Suba, Tocancipá, Gachancipá, Gachacá, Unta, Turmequé and Itencipá. In 1542 and from 1543 to 1544, Hernán Venegas Carrillo was mayor, at that time called ''encomendero'', of Bogotá. Between the two terms, the post was filled by Juan de Céspedes.En busca de sangre azul
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List of mayors of Bogotá – 1538–1599
/ref> On March 20, 1544, Venegas Carrillo founded the town of Tocaima.Guachetá y Tocaima son las más antiguas
– El Tiempo He had been sent east by Alonso Luis de Lugo.Las tradiciones de Tocaima
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Tocaima became one of the richest cities in the New Kingdom of Granada.Hernán Venegas Carrillo
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– Soledad Acosta de Samper In 1547, Venegas Carrillo was sent to Spain and returned the next year. He made several further voyages back to Europe and during one of them he married Juana Ponce de León y Figueroa, daughter of the governor of Venezuela

Pedro Ponce de León Dom Pedro Ponce de Leon, O.S.B., (1520–1584) was a Spanish Benedictine monk who is often credited as being "the first teacher for the deaf". Biography Ponce de Leon established a school for the deaf at the San Salvador Monastery in Oña. Hi ...

. His wife accompanied Venegas Carrillo to Bogotá in 1569. Hernán Venegas Carrillo died on February 2, 1583, in Bogotá and is buried in the Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá, located at the Bolívar Square in the centre of the Colombian capital. Various of his many children became the encomenderos of Guatavita, Gachetá, Chipasaque (today Junín), Tausa, Suba and Gachancipá.

Conquests of Hernán Venegas Carrillo

Trivia

* A school founded in 1958 in Tocaima, is named after Hernán Venegas CarrilloColegio Hernán Venegas Carrillo celebra sus 55 años
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Personal life

Biography

Conquests of Hernán Venegas Carrillo

Trivia

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