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History of Colombia

The history of Colombia refers especially to the development of the Colombian nations after the Spaniard conquers of the territory. Notes about the Colombian Prehistory are rather obscure as in any place of the American continent and archaeological researches are so dynamic in Colombia as in other American countries. 

Poporo of the Quimbaya Culture. A gold work of the Pre-Hispanic Colombian cultures. This peace is exhibited in the Museo del Oro (Gold Museum) in Bogotá. Picture by Turista Perenne.

It is said that the territory was populates from the Caribbean basin following the theory of the north to south population of the Americas (according with this theory, the first American people came from the Siberian terrains across the Bering Stretch to Alaska and from there they started to migrated to the south following animals more than 40,000 years ago. It puts that North America and Mezzo America were the first territories to have population and South America the last part. However the discovering of a very ancient human site in Pedra Furada, Brazil, of more than 48,000 years old, made the theory of the north to south migration trembled. 

There are enough archaeological evidences of a first population of the nowadays Colombian territories through its both cost (Atlantic and Pacific), suggesting that the first settlers came either from the Caribbean tribes or from the Mezzo American groups. Chibchas, for example, came from Central America and today many human groups in countries like Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama keep near relations with Colombian aborigines. 

The Pre-Colombian period coincides with the discovering of Agriculture in the Americas, at the same time of the other continents thanks to the beggining of the Holocene period (a global warming that ended the Glacial Era). Agriculture became popular in the Colombian territory, especially in the coasts and the Andean region, creating the first sedentary settlements that would give form to different cultures like San Agustín (Huila State), Kalima (Valle del Cauca), Quimbaya (Eje Cafetero) and many others. When the Spaniards arrived to the Colombian territory at the beginning of the 16th century, the found the Post-Classic stage of the Muisca and Tairona cultures. 

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