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Piedras del Tunjo Archaeological Park

Archaeological park

Summary

Archaeological park

Field	Value
name	Piedras del Tunjo
image	Centro de las Piedras del Tunjo- Facatativá.JPG
image_size	240
alt	Piedras del Tunjo
caption	Centre of the Piedras del Tunjo Archaeological Park
map_type	Colombia
map_alt	Piedras del Tunjo
map_caption	Location within Colombia
map_size	240
altitude_m	2611
altitude_ref
relief	1
coordinates
location	Facatativá, Cundinamarca
region	Altiplano Cundiboyacense

type	Rock art
part_of	Pre-Muisca sites
abandoned	Spanish conquest
epochs	Herrera Period-Late Muisca
cultures	Muisca
dependency_of	Bacatá
archaeologists	Diego Martínez Celis
Álvaro Botiva Contreras
Guillermo Muñoz Castiblanco
condition	Threatened
public_access	Yes

Álvaro Botiva Contreras Guillermo Muñoz Castiblanco Piedras del Tunjo (Spanish for "Tunjo Rocks") is an important archaeological park established on a natural rock shelter 40 km west of Bogotá in the municipality of Facatativá.

Description

In the Late Pleistocene, the site used to be the shore of a large lake flooding the Bogotá savanna; Lake Humboldt .8 It was used by the Muisca rulers as a refuge during the time of the Spanish conquest. The site is one of the possible places where the soldiers of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada killed the ruling zipa Tisquesusa in April 1537.

The rocks are covered with pictographs made by Muisca artists on rocks of the Guadalupe Group. Their age has not been confirmed. The area of the park used to be an hacienda, property of a wealthy family since colonial times. It was nationalized in 1946 to establish the park.

Destruction of the ancient pictographs

Decades of government negligence and lack of policies for the protection of archaeological heritage have resulted in the destruction of most of the ancient paintings.

Gallery

File:Facatativá - Piedras del Tunjo.JPG|Rock face with petroglyphs File:Facatativa pictograph.JPG|Petroglyph on one of the rocks File:Facatativa vandalized pictograph.JPG|Vandalised petroglyph

References

Bibliography

References

[https://www.freemaptools.com/elevation-finder.htm Google Maps Elevation Finder]
Plancha 227, 1998

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