Archaeology Museum, Pasca

The Archaeology Museum of Pasca is a museum located in Pasca, Colombia. It houses a great collection of Pre-Columbian objects and human remains, including Muisca mummies. It has a replica of the famous golden raft, Balsa Muisca, found near this town that represents the El Dorado rite.

It also has a natural history museum with staffed animals and a large insectarium.

It was founded by the Roman Catholic priest Jaime Hincapié Santamaría.

External links

(Spanish) Official site of the Municipality of Pasca
Precolumbian Golden Boat Famous golden figure based on El Dorado rite (housed in the Gold Museum at Bogotá, Colombia)
(Spanish) Photos of Precolumbian art found at Pasca

Muisca

Geography	Ocetá Páramo Altiplano Cundiboyacense Bogotá savanna river wetlands Tenza Valley Flora & fauna

History	Prehistory (<10,000 BP) Lithic (10,000 - 2800 BP) El Abra Tibitó Tequendama P. del Tunjo Checua Aguazuque Lake Herrera El Infiernito Herrera (800 BC - 800) Confederation (~1450 - 1540)

Conquest	List of conquistadors Gonzalo de Quesada Hernán de Quesada Gonzalo Suárez Rendón Juan de Céspedes Baltasar Maldonado Juan de San Martín Lázaro Fonte Miguel Holguín y Figueroa Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela Ortún Velázquez de Velasco Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano Gonzalo Macías Luis Lanchero Martín Galeano Conquest of the Chibchan Nations

Topics	Agriculture Architecture Art Astronomy Calendar Cuisine Chicha Economy Mummies Music Muysccubun Duit Numerals Toponyms Myths El Dorado Raft Religion Tunjo Tejo Warfare Battles of Pasca (~1470) Chocontá (~1490) Women Zoratama The Salt People Zipaquirá Nemocón Tausa

Deities	Chiminigagua Bachué Chía Sué Bochica Huitaca Chibchacum Cuchavira Nencatacoa Chaquén Chibafruime Guahaioque

Sacred sites	Built Sun Temple Moon Temple Cojines del Zaque Goranchacha Temple Hunzahúa Well Natural Fúquene Guatavita Iguaque Siecha Suesca Tota Monster Tequendama Falls

Northern rulers	zaque of Hunza Hunzahúa Michuá Quemuenchatocha Aquiminzaque iraca of Suamox Nompanim Sugamuxi tundama of Tundama

Southern rulers	zipa of Bacatá Meicuchuca Saguamanchica Nemequene Tisquesusa Sagipa cacique of Turmequé Diego de Torres y Moyachoque

Neighbours	Chibcha-speaking U'wa Sutagao Guane Lache Arawak-speaking Achagua Tegua Guayupe Cariban-speaking Panche Muzo Yarigui

Research and collections	List of scholars Acosta De Aguado Arango Broadbent De Castellanos Celis Correal Duquesne Freyle Friede Gamboa Groot Hammen Humboldt Izquierdo Langebaek De Lugo Ocampo De Piedrahita De Quesada Reichel-Dolmatoff Schrimpff Simón Triana Uricoechea Zerda Research institutes Publications El Carnero Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias‎ Musea Museo del Oro Sogamoso Pasca

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Archaeology Museum, Pasca

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