Miguel Triana Ruiz de Cote ( Bogotá, Granadine Confederation, 26 November 1859 - Bogotá, Colombia, 29 April 1931) was a Colombian

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and Muisca scholar. He is best known for his 1922 publication ''La Civilización Chibcha''; "The Muisca civilisation". Triana wrote a number of books about the Muisca and their culture.Publications Miguel Triana
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Miguel Triana especially contributed to the knowledge of the

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and the creation of rock art throughout the Muisca Confederation. Triana was the first Colombian investigator relating the Muisca culture with the

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s.López Estupiñán, 2011, p.7 He described hundreds of rock paintings and carvings in his book ''El jeroglífico Chibcha''.Martínez & Botiva, 2004, p.13

Biography

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Miguel Triana was born on 26 November 1859 in the Granadine Confederation capital Bogotá as son of general Domingo de San Vicente y de los Santos Triana Loboguerrero and Dolores (or Clotilde) Ruiz de Cote.Miguel Triana
at GeniBateman, 1973, p.13 He had a brother Felipe Triana Ruiz de Cote. He attended the Colegio del Rosario until age 18 and studied

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and military engineering at the ''Escuela de Ingeniería del Coronel Antonio de Narváez'' where he graduated in 1880. Triana worked as an engineer for the train line of Puerto Wilches, finished in 1883, the central northern highway and train tracks in

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and on irrigation projects in the Valley of Sogamoso as part of a study to dewater

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. From 1890 Triana was director of public works in Nariño and from 1917 manager of the Municipal Tramway of Bogotá. Miguel Triana was professor in physics, hydraulics, geometry, trigonometry and drawing at the faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá. He was affiliated with various organisations in Colombia, among others: ''Sociedad Físico-Literaria de Bogotá'', ''El Ateneo'', ''Sociedad de Ingenieros Civiles de los Estados Unidos'', ''Sociedad Colombiana de Ciencias Naturales'' and the ''Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros'', founded by Triana in 1887. Triana was interested in the former inhabitants of the

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where he was born and studied the history of the

Muisca The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan langu ...

(also called "Chibcha", as the

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they speak) and in 1922 he published his mayor work ''La Civilización Chibcha'' Other works are ''El jeroglífico Chibcha'' and ''Las leyendas Chibchas''. The former work was the result of forty years of studying rock art in Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta and other parts of Colombia.Description Muisca script and rock art
/ref> Miguel Triana married Juana Echeverri and the couple got one son, Jorge Felipe Triana Echeverri. Triana died on 29 April 1931 in his city of birth.
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Books

* 1970 - ''El jeroglífico Chibcha'' - posthumously * 1950 - ''Por el sur de Colombia: excursión pintoresca y científica al Putumayo'' - posthumously * 1924 - ''Petroglifos de la Mesa Central de Colombia'' * 1922 - ''La civilización Chibcha'' * 1915 - ''Improvements for the mouth of the Magdalena River'' * 1913 - ''Al Meta'' * 1907 - ''Por el sur de Colombia: excursión pintoresca y científica al Putumayo'' * 2021 - ''Por el sur de Colombia, reedición de Editorial Universidad del Cauc
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