Casa del Fundador Gonzalo Suárez Rendón
Façade of the museum
on the Plaza Bolívar |
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 Location of the museum in Colombia
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| Established | 1540-1570 (as house) 1965 (as museum) |
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| Location | Carrera 9 No. 19-56 Tunja, Boyacá,  Colombia
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| Coordinates | 5°31′56″N 73°21′49″W / 5.53222°N 73.36361°WCoordinates: 5°31′56″N 73°21′49″W / 5.53222°N 73.36361°W |
| Type | Art, history |
| Collection size | 80 |
| Founder | Gonzalo Suárez Rendón |
| Curator | Alcaldía Mayor, Tunja |
The Casa del Fundador Gonzalo Suárez Rendón (English: "House of the Founder Gonzalo Suárez Rendón") is a museum and monument in Tunja, the capital of Boyacá, Colombia. It is situated on the central square of Tunja, named Plaza Bolívar, but historically called Plaza Suárez Rendón, honouring the city founder Gonzalo Suárez Rendón, who established Tunja for the Spanish Crown on August 6, 1539. The colonial building, declared a monument in 1959 and designated as museum in 1965, is the only remaining house of a city founder in Latin America and started construction in 1540.
The Altiplano Cundiboyacense, the central high plateau in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes before the Spanish conquest, was inhabited by the Muisca, a collection of indigenous people who spoke a version of Chibcha; Muysccubun. Their egalitarian society and economy was self-sufficient and based on agriculture, trading with various surrounding indigenous groups and the mining of halite, giving them the name "The Salt People". They lived in small settlements of ten to one hundred bohíos scattered in the valleys of the Andes. Their system of hierarchy consisted of caciques and priests and the cacique of certain settlements were guarding larger areas. The main leaders of the community were the zipa based in Bacatá and the zaque based in Hunza, today known as Tunja.
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