Hernán Venegas Carrillo Manosalvas (1513 – 2 February 1583)Hernán Venegas Carrillo
was a

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for who participated in the

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and

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in the

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, present-day

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. 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

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(also named Zaquezazipa), the last Muisca ''

zipa When the Spain, 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 Funza, Muyquytá. The ''Zaque'' was the ...

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– Geni This was one of the first

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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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Norte de Santander Norte de Santander (Spanish for Northern Santander) () is a department of northeastern Colombia. It is in the north of the country, bordering Venezuela. Its capital is Cúcuta, one of the country's major cities. Norte de Santander is bordere ...

. Alonso, his son with Magdalena de Guatavita, killed fellow conquistador

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'' o ...

in a

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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 Santa Marta (), officially the Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta (), is a port List of cities in Colombia, city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. It is the capital of Magdalena Department and the fou ...

on the Caribbean coast to the

Muisca Confederation The Muisca Confederation was a loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (''zaques'', ''zipas'', ''iraca'', and ''tundama'') in the central Andes, Andean highlands of what is today Colombia before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Spanis ...

on the

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.List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
–

In 1541, Venegas Carrillo received ownership of the

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s of

Guatavita Guatavita is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Guavio Province of the department of Cundinamarca. Guatavita is located 75 km northeast of the capital Bogotá. It borders Sesquilé and Machetá in the north, Gachetá and Junín ...

Gachetá Gachetá, Cundinamarca 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 ...

, Chipaleque, Pausa, Tuala, Tuaquira, Suba,

Tocancipá Tocancipá () is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Tocancipá is situated in the northern part of the Bogotá savanna, part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Easter ...

Gachancipá Gachancipá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre is located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Suesca ...

, Gachacá, Unta,

Turmequé Turmequé is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Márquez Province. Turmequé is located at northeast from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Ventaquemada in the west, in the ...

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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On March 20, 1544, Venegas Carrillo founded the town of

Tocaima Tocaima () refers to both a city and a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia. City The city of Tocaima was founded on March 20, 1544 as San Dionisio de los Caballeros de Tocaima by the Spanish explorer Hernán Venegas Carrillo. This city is mos ...

.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

.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 Don (title), Dom Pedro Ponce de Leon, O.S.B., (1520, Sahagún – 29 August 1584, Oña) was a Spanish people, Spanish Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monk who is often credited as being "the first teacher for the deaf". Biography Ponce de Leo ...

. His wife accompanied Venegas Carrillo to Bogotá in 1569. Hernán Venegas Carrillo died on February 2, 1583, in Bogotá and is buried in the

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, 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 Tausa () is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Ubaté Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Tausa is and was an important town on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense due to its salt mine. It was the third most prolific salt deposit f ...

, 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

Personal life

Biography

Conquests of Hernán Venegas Carrillo

Trivia

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