City of Gold for Dummies
Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada found Lake Guatavita as well as the rituals of your Muisca tribe in 1537. Quesada, as well as explorers that followed, surmised a fortune in gold lay at The underside from the lake, just after witnessing or hearing of the elaborate choices created by the locals. In 1545, explorers Lázaro Fonte and H