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Herrera Period
The Herrera Period is a phase in the history of Colombia. It is part of the Andean preceramic and ceramic, time equivalent of the North American pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Formative stage, formative and classic stages and age dated by various archaeologists. The Herrera Period predates the age of the Muisca people, Muisca, who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and postdates the Muisca Confederation#Prehistory, prehistory of the region in Colombia. The Herrera Period is usually defined as ranging from 800 BCE to 800 CE, although some scholars date it as early as 1500 BCE. Ample evidence of the Herrera Period has been uncovered on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The main archaeologists contributing to the present knowledge about the Herrera Period are the List of Muisca scholars, scholars Ana María Groot, Gonzalo Correal Urrego, Thomas van der Hammen, Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda, Sylvia M. Broadbent, and Marianne Cardale de Schri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana María Groot
Ana María Groot de Mahecha (born 29 August 1952 in Bogotá) is a Colombian historian, archaeologist, anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the National University of Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Ana Mariá Groot speaks Spanish, English and French.Curriculum Vitae Ana María Groot Biography Ana María Groot de Mahecha (other sources give second last name Sáenz) was born in Bogotá on 29 August 1952. She attended the ''Colegio Santa Francisca Romana'' and studied anthropology at the University of Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad de los Andes, obtaining her MSc. title in 1974 with a thesis named ''Excavaciones Arqueológicas en Tierradentro. Estudio sobre cerámica y su posible uso ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid, Cundinamarca
Madrid () is a municipality located in the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia, within the Western Savanna Province. As of 2024, it has an estimated population of approximately 140,000 residents, making it one of the most populous municipalities in the region and the country. The municipality spans an area of 120.5 square kilometers and is situated at an altitude of 2,554 Height above mean sea level, meters above sea level. Located 21 kilometers west of Bogotá, Madrid is closely connected to the Colombian capital, both functionally and spatially, as part of its broader Metropolitan Area of Bogotá, metropolitan area. Established as an encomienda in 1559 by Alonso Díaz and originally named ''Serrezuela'', the municipality was renamed ''Madrid'' in 1875. In the present day, it is recognized for its significant residential growth and cultural diversity, characteristics that have established it as a prominent commuter town within the metropolitan area of Bogotá. This development exem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosquera, Cundinamarca
Mosquera is a municipality of Colombia in the Western Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Mosquera is close to the capital Bogotá and is part of its metropolitan area. The urban centre of Mosquera is situated at an altitude of on the Bogotá savanna. The municipality borders the localities Bosa and Fontibón of Bogotá in the east, Soacha in the south, Madrid and Funza in the north and Bojacá in the west.Official website Mosquera Etymology Mosquera is named after its founder, former[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Colombia
The municipalities of Colombia are decentralized subdivisions of the Colombia, Republic of Colombia. Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia, with 1,104 municipality, municipalities (''municipios''). Each one of them is led by a mayor (''alcalde'') elected by popular vote and represents the maximum executive government official at a municipality level under the mandate of the governor of their department which is a representative of all municipalities in the department; municipalities are grouped to form departments. The municipalities of Colombia are also grouped in an association called the ''Federación Colombiana de Municipios'' (Colombian Federation of Municipalities), which functions as a union under the private law and under the Colombian Constitution of 1991, constitutional Freedom of association, right to free association to defend their common interests. Categories Conforming to the law 1551/12 that modified the sixth article of the law 136/94 Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cundinamarca Department
Department of Cundinamarca (, ) is one of the departments of Colombia. Its area covers (not including the Capital District) and it has a population of 2,919,060 as of 2018. It was created on August 5, 1886, under the constitutional terms presented on the same year. Cundinamarca is located in the center of Colombia. Cundinamarca's capital city is Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. This is a special case among Colombian departments, since List of capitals outside the territories they serve, Bogotá is not legally a part of Cundinamarca, yet it is the only department that has its capital designated by the Colombian Constitution of 1991, Constitution (if the capital were to be ever moved, it would take a constitutional reform to do so, instead of a simple ordinance passed by the Cundinamarca Assembly). In censuses, the populations for Bogotá and Cundinamarca are tabulated separately; otherwise, Cundinamarca's population would total over 11 million. Etymology The name of Cundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogotá Savanna
The Bogotá savanna is a savanna#Savanna ecoregions, montane savanna, located in the southwestern part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the center of Colombia. The Bogotá savanna has an extent of and an average altitude of . The savanna is situated in the Cordillera Oriental (Colombia), Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The Bogotá savanna is crossed from northeast to southwest by the long Bogotá River, which at the southwestern edge of the plateau forms the Tequendama Falls (''Salto del Tequendama''). Other rivers, such as the Subachoque River, Subachoque, Bojacá River, Bojacá, Fucha River, Fucha, Soacha River, Soacha and Tunjuelo Rivers, tributaries of the Bogotá River, form smaller valleys with very fertile soils dedicated to agriculture and cattle-breeding. Before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, Spanish conquest of the Bogotá savanna, the area was inhabited by the indigenous Muisca people, Muisca, who formed a loose confederation of various ''caciques'', na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the cutoff of the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being 1.806 million years Before Present (BP). Publications from earlier years may use either definition of the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology. The name is a combination of Ancient Greek () 'most' and (; Latinized as ) 'new'. The aridification and cooling trends of the preceding Neogene were continued in the Pleistocene. The climate was strongly variable depending on the glacial cycle, oscillating between cold Glacial period, glacial periods and warmer Interglacial, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Humboldt, Colombia
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by rivers. Lakes, as with other bodies of water, are part of the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Most lakes are fresh water and account for almost all the world's surface freshwater, but some are salt lakes with salinities even higher than that of seawater. Lakes vary significantly in surface area and volume of water. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which are also water-filled basins on land, although there are no official definitions or scientific criteria distinguishing the two. Lakes are also distinct from lagoons, which are generally shallow tidal pools dammed by sandbars or other material at coastal regions of oceans or large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Herrera
Lake Herrera is a small lake located at from the urban centre of Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Mosquera and about west of the capital Bogotá in Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The Andes, Andean lake has made its name in the Herrera Period, the period in the history of central Colombia before the Muisca people, Muisca Period, after archaeologist Sylvia M. Broadbent, Sylvia Broadbent excavated ceramics around Lake Herrera in 1971. Description Lake Herrera is situated on the Bogotá savanna; the southwestern part of the Andean high plateau in the Cordillera Oriental (Colombia), Eastern Ranges; the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The lake is one of many remainders of the Pleistocene Lake Humboldt, Colombia, Lake Humboldt. It is the largest remaining natural water reserve on the Bogotá savanna and the reserve belongs to the municipalities of Colombia, municipalities Mosquera, Madrid, Cundinamarca, Madrid and Bojacá. History Investigations by archaeologist Gonzalo Correa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Cardale De Schrimpff
Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist, Academy (educational institution), academic and writer. Biography Marianne Cardale obtained her master's degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1965 and her PhD in 1972 at the University of Oxford with a thesis named ''Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia''.Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff - Banco de la República From 1970 to 1974 she worked at the Los Andes University (Bogotá), Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.Curriculum Vitae Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff /ref> ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia M
Sylvia may refer to: People *Sylvia (given name) *Sylvia (singer), American country music and country pop singer and songwriter * Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and record label executive * Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer credited as "Sylvia" in Australia and the UK * Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial arts fighter * Colin Sylvia, Australian football player Places * Mount Sylvia, a former name of Xueshan on Taiwan Island * Mount Sylvia, Queensland, Australia * Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas, United States * Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, New York City, New York, United States * Fort Sylvia, now Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia Art, entertainment, and media Comics * ''Sylvia'' (comic strip), a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole Hollander Films * ''Sylvia'' (1961 film), an Australian television play * ''Sylvia'' (1965 film), an American drama film * ''Sylvia'' (1985 film), a New Zealand film about New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner * ''Sylvia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
