﻿THE 
  NATIVE 
  TRIBES 
  AND 
  LANGUAGES 
  OF 
  

   SOUTHWESTERN 
  COLOMBIA 
  

  

  By 
  Sekgio 
  Elias 
  Ortiz 
  

  

  TRIBES 
  AND 
  BOUNDARIES 
  

  

  The 
  earliest 
  known 
  Indian 
  name 
  in 
  southwestern 
  Colombia 
  in 
  the 
  

   region 
  between 
  lat. 
  2° 
  and 
  5° 
  N. 
  and 
  long. 
  1° 
  and 
  3° 
  (west 
  of 
  Bogota) 
  

   was 
  Quillacinga 
  Condelumarca 
  (Cabildos 
  de 
  la 
  Ciudad 
  de 
  Quito, 
  Book 
  

   1, 
  Libro 
  verde, 
  I, 
  p. 
  106). 
  Later, 
  Pedro 
  Cieza 
  de 
  Leon, 
  the 
  first 
  

   chronicler 
  of 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  this 
  territory, 
  distinguished 
  two 
  cul- 
  

   turally 
  different 
  peoples 
  in 
  the 
  region 
  : 
  the 
  Quillacinga 
  and 
  the 
  Pasto 
  

   (map 
  1, 
  No. 
  24; 
  map 
  7; 
  map 
  10). 
  He 
  listed 
  the 
  following 
  Quillacinga 
  

   settlements: 
  "Mocondino 
  and 
  Bejendino, 
  Buyzaco, 
  Guajanzangua 
  

   and 
  Mocoxonduque, 
  Guacuanquer 
  and 
  Macaxamata." 
  Pasto 
  set- 
  

   tlements 
  were: 
  "Ascual, 
  Mallama, 
  Tucurres, 
  Zapuys, 
  lies, 
  Gualmatal, 
  

   Funes, 
  Chapal, 
  Males, 
  Piales, 
  Pupiales, 
  Turca, 
  Cumba" 
  (map 
  11). 
  

   He 
  spoke 
  also 
  of 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  the 
  provinces 
  of 
  the 
  Mastel 
  and 
  Abad 
  

   and 
  of 
  other 
  villages, 
  such 
  as 
  "Isancal, 
  Pangan, 
  and 
  Zacuanpues, 
  and 
  

   those 
  they 
  call 
  Chorros 
  del 
  Agua 
  and 
  Pichilimbuy; 
  and 
  there 
  are 
  also 
  

   Tuyles 
  and 
  Angayan 
  and 
  Pagual 
  and 
  Chuchaldo" 
  (Cieza 
  de 
  Leon, 
  

   1923 
  b, 
  p. 
  385), 
  which 
  seem 
  possibly 
  to 
  have 
  formed 
  another 
  nation- 
  

   ality 
  not 
  very 
  well 
  determined 
  by 
  the 
  chronicler. 
  He 
  ended 
  his 
  enu- 
  

   meration 
  of 
  settlements 
  with 
  the 
  Provinces 
  of 
  Sibundoy 
  and 
  Pastoco, 
  

   which, 
  because 
  of 
  their 
  geographical 
  location, 
  might 
  be 
  supposed 
  to 
  

   have 
  formed 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Quillacinga 
  group. 
  

  

  A 
  later 
  document 
  (" 
  Sublevacion 
  y 
  castigo 
  de 
  los 
  Indios 
  Sindaguas 
  

   de 
  la 
  Provincia 
  de 
  Barbacoas, 
  1635," 
  in 
  the 
  archives 
  of 
  the 
  Curia 
  de 
  

   Pasto) 
  tells 
  of 
  another 
  considerable 
  group 
  of 
  Indians, 
  the 
  Sindagua, 
  

   who 
  occupied 
  the 
  western 
  or 
  Coastal 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  above-mentioned 
  

   region. 
  These 
  warlike 
  and 
  indomitable 
  natives 
  were 
  totally 
  annihi- 
  

   lated 
  by 
  the 
  Spanish 
  conquistadors 
  in 
  a 
  war 
  to 
  the 
  death 
  that 
  lasted 
  

   to 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  18th 
  century. 
  

  

  The 
  Quillacinga 
  (meaning 
  "half 
  moon" 
  in 
  Quechua; 
  so 
  named 
  be- 
  

   cause 
  of 
  their 
  nose 
  ornament) 
  were 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  Pasto 
  and 
  Abad 
  

   to 
  the 
  west 
  and 
  south 
  by 
  the 
  Guaitara 
  River. 
  Their 
  extreme 
  limit 
  

   was 
  the 
  Angasmayo 
  River. 
  To 
  the 
  east, 
  they 
  extended 
  to 
  the 
  source 
  of 
  

  

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