Jiménez de Quesada

[ hee-me-neth the ke-sah-thah, -me-nes ]

noun

1. Gon·za·lo [gawn-, thah, -law, -, sah, -], 1497?–1579, Spanish explorer and conqueror in South America.

Example Sentences

In the capital, Bogotá, members of the Misak indigenous group demolished a statue of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the Spanish conquistador who founded the city in 1638.

From BBC

In AD1537 it was these stories of El Dorado that drew the Spanish conquistador Jimenez de Quesada and his army of 800 men away from their mission to find an overland route to Peru and up into the Andean homeland of the Muisca for the first time.

From BBC

Pilgrims gathered at the Bogotá Cathedral, a soaring Gothic structure that contains the remains of the city’s 16th-century founder, the conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

From New York Times

La Candelaria’s origins go back to the 1530s, when Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, an Andalusian adventurer who some believe was the model for Cervantes’s Don Quixote, trekked through the Amazon rain forest and the high cordillera, losing almost all his men before arriving on a high plateau populated by Muisca Indians.

From New York Times

In 1536-1537 an expedition under Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada made their way from Santa Marta inland by the river Magdalena, and penetrated to Bogot�, the capital of the Muiscas or Chibchas.

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