Attempts to pacify the pijao indians (New Kingdom of Granada) towards the end of the sixteenth century

Abstract

Although at the end of the sixteenth century the conquest of the spanish Indies was almost over, there still remained several territories unconquered, as a result, essentially, of differnt uprisings of the native population. One of the cases which was still pending solution was that of the pijao indians, located along the banks of the river Magdalena, interrupting communications and traffic between two cities as important as Cartagena and Bogota, and representing a permanent danger for the inhabitants of the area. Several attempts were made to submit the pijao rebels, and this article deals specifically and in detail with the one led by Bernardino de Mújica Guevara, landowner of Tunja, in 1592.