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page 116th-century South American people
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador

Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar
Spanish governor of Cuba

Túpac Amaru
4th and last Inca Emperor of the Kingdom of Vilcabamba

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Spanish navigator, explorer

Pánfilo de Narváez
Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas

Juan Díaz de Solís
16th Century navigator and explorer
Gonzalo Pizarro
Spanish conquistador, younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro
Juan Fernández
Spanish explorer
Jerónimo de Aguilar
Friar, conquistador
Lope García de Castro
Spanish colonial administrator (1516-1576)
Aquiminzaque
Aquiminzaque (Chibcha: Aquim ó Quiminza, died Tunja, 1540) was the last hoa of Hunza, on which the Spanish city of Tunja (in present-day Colombia) was built, reigning from 1537 until his death. His psihipqua counterpart in the southern area of the Muisca was Sagipa. Aquiminzaque was for the Muisca what Túpac Amaru was for the Inca; and as the Inca leader, Quiminza was executed by decapitation.
Luis Colón, 1st Duke of Veragua
first son of Diego Colón and María Álvarez de Toledo y Rojas, and grandson of Christopher Columbus.
Quemuenchatocha
Quemuenchatocha or Quimuinchateca (named in the earliest sources Eucaneme) (Hunza, 1472–Ramiriquí, 1538) was the second-last hoa of Hunza, currently known as Tunja, as of 1490. He was the ruler of the northern Muisca when the Spanish conquistadores arrived in the Muisca highlands. His contemporary enemy psihipquas of the southern Muisca were successively Nemequene and Bogotá.
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda
Spanish shipwreck survivor

Battista Antonelli
Italian engineer
Tisquesusa
Tisquesusa, also spelled Thisquesuza, Thysquesuca, or Thisquesusha, referred to in the earliest sources as Bogotá, the Elder, (died Facatativá, 1537) was the fourth and last independent ruler (psihipqua) of Muyquytá, main settlement of the southern Muisca between 1514 and his death in 1537. The Spanish pronunciation of his name brought about the Colombian capital Bogotá. Tisquesusa was the ruler of the southern Muisca Confederation at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, when the troops led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and his brother entered the central Andean highlands.
Sagipa
Sagipa or Zaquesazipa (died 1539, Bosa, New Kingdom of Granada) was the fifth and last ruler (psihipqua) of Muyquytá, currently known as Bogotá, as of 1537. He was the brother of his predecessor Bogotá but the traditional faction of the Muisca considered him an usurper as his nephew Chiayzaque, the cacique of Chía, was the legitimate successor of Tisquesusa. His hoa counterpart in the northern part of the Muisca territory was Quiminza, the last surviving ruler of the Muisca. The daughter of Sagipa, named as Magdalena de Guatavita, married conquistador Hernán Venegas Carrillo, one of the first
Nemequene
Nemequene or Nemeguene (died 1514) was the third ruler (zipa) of Bacatá as of 1490. His zaque counterpart ruling over the northern area of the Muisca territory was Quemuenchatocha.
Isabel de Guevara
16th-century Spanish colonist
Tundama
thumb|260px|right|Landscape of Duitama, seat of Tundama