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The Quimbaya civilization is a South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
n civilization
Civilization

A civilization is a society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in towns and city....
, noted for its spectacular gold work characterized by its technical accuracy and detailed designs. The majority of the gold work is made in tumbaga
Tumbaga

Tumbaga was the name given by Spaniards to a non-specific alloy of gold and copper which they found in widespread use in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica....
 alloy, with 30% copper, which gives to the pieces beautiful color tonalities. They inhabited the areas corresponding the modern departments of Quindío, Caldas
Caldas

Caldas may refer to:*?aldas, Azerbaijan* Francisco Jos? de Caldas, Colombian lawyer and scientist, after whom the departments of Colombia and the town are named....
 and Risaralda
Risaralda

Risaralda may refer to:* Risaralda Department, in Colombia* Risaralda River* Risaralda, Caldas a town and municipality in Caldas Department...
 in Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, around the valley of the Cauca river
Cauca River

The Cauca River is a river in Colombia that lies between the Cordillera Occidental, Colombia and Cordillera Central, Colombia cordilleras. Born in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popay?n, it joins the Magdalena River just south of Santa Cruz de Mompox....
. There is no clear data about when they were initially established but it is currently set around the first century B.C.

The Quimbaya people reached their apogee of development during the 4th to 7th century A.D., period known as The Quimbaya Classic.






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The Quimbaya civilization is a South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
n civilization
Civilization

A civilization is a society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in towns and city....
, noted for its spectacular gold work characterized by its technical accuracy and detailed designs. The majority of the gold work is made in tumbaga
Tumbaga

Tumbaga was the name given by Spaniards to a non-specific alloy of gold and copper which they found in widespread use in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica....
 alloy, with 30% copper, which gives to the pieces beautiful color tonalities. They inhabited the areas corresponding the modern departments of Quindío, Caldas
Caldas

Caldas may refer to:*?aldas, Azerbaijan* Francisco Jos? de Caldas, Colombian lawyer and scientist, after whom the departments of Colombia and the town are named....
 and Risaralda
Risaralda

Risaralda may refer to:* Risaralda Department, in Colombia* Risaralda River* Risaralda, Caldas a town and municipality in Caldas Department...
 in Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, around the valley of the Cauca river
Cauca River

The Cauca River is a river in Colombia that lies between the Cordillera Occidental, Colombia and Cordillera Central, Colombia cordilleras. Born in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popay?n, it joins the Magdalena River just south of Santa Cruz de Mompox....
. There is no clear data about when they were initially established but it is currently set around the first century B.C.

The Quimbaya people reached their apogee of development during the 4th to 7th century A.D., period known as The Quimbaya Classic. From this period is the most emblematic piece of this culture: the Poporo Quimbaya
Poporo Quimbaya

Poporo Quimbaya is a precolumbian artpiece of the classic Quimbaya civilization period, currently exhibited in the Gold Museum in Bogot?, Colombia....
 (currently exhibited in the Gold Museum
Gold Museum

The Gold Museum is a museum located in Bogot?, Colombia. It displays an extraordinary selection of its Pre-Columbian goldwork collection - the biggest in the world - in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors....
. The most frequent designs in the art pieces are anthropomorphic, depicting men and women sitting, with closed eyes and placid expression. There are also many designs of fruits and poporo
Poporo

Poporo is a device used for Indigenous peoples of the Americas cultures in present and pre-Columbian South America for storage of small amounts of lime ....
s.

Most of the retrieved items are part of funeral offerings, found in the inside of sarcophagi made of hollow trunks. The gold represented a sacred metal and the passport for the afterlife
Afterlife

The afterlife is the concept of a continued existence for the soul, spirit or mind of a being after biological death. The major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics....
. Around the 10th century A.D. the Quimbaya culture disappeared entirely due to unknown circumstances; the studies of the archeological items points to an advanced cultural development and the political structure of a cacicazgo
Cacique

Cacique or Cazique from the ta?no word for the pre-Columbian tribal Tribal chief, of the Taino tribes in the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles....
 with separated groups dedicated to pottery, religion, trade, gold work and war.

See also

  • Indigenous peoples in Colombia
    Indigenous peoples in Colombia

    The indigenous peoples in Colombia comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country's present territory prior to its discovery by Europeans around 1500....
  • Spanish Empire
    Spanish Empire

    The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
  • Population history of Amerindians
    Population history of American indigenous peoples

    It is estimated, based on archaeological data and written records from European settlers, that from 10 to 100 million indigenous people lived in the Americas when the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus began a historical period of large-scale European interaction with the Americas....
  • Malagana
    Malagana

    The Malagana Treasure of Colombia, South America, is the group of gold and other artifacts plundered in 1992 in a mob "gold rush" after an ancient cemetery near Hacienda Malagana in western Colombia, was discovered in 1992....
     treasure