 Guane doubled-chambered, ceramic, stirrup-spout vessel, 10th–16th century CE, exhibited at Chicamocha National Park | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
Santander, Boyacá,  Colombia | |
| Languages | |
| Chibcha, Colombian Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Traditional religion, Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Lache, U'wa, Muisca, Muzo, Yarigui |
The Guane were a South American people that lived mainly in the area of Santander and north of Boyacá, both departments of present-day central-Colombia. They were farmers cultivating cotton, pineapple and other crops, and skilled artisans working in cotton textiles. The Guane lived north of the Chicamocha River, around the Chicamocha Canyon in an area stretching from Vélez in the south to the capital of Santander; Bucaramanga in the north.[1] Other sources state their territory did not extend so far north.[2] Guane, a corregimiento of Barichara, Santander, is said to have been the capital of the Guane people.
- ^ (in Spanish) Guane people and their territories
- ^ (in Spanish) Reconstruction of the Guane people - El Espectador