Iraca

View of the sacred Iraca Valley (Tobasía)

The iraca, sometimes spelled iraka,[1][2] was the ruler and high priest of Sugamuxi in the confederation of the Muisca who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense; the central highlands of the Colombian Andes. Iraca can also refer to the Iraka Valley over which they ruled.[1][2][3] Important scholars who wrote about the iraca were Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Alexander von Humboldt and Ezequiel Uricoechea.

  1. ^ a b Ocampo López, 2013, Ch.12, p.77
  2. ^ a b Ocampo López, 2013, Ch.14, p.85
  3. ^ (in Spanish) Life of Alexander von Humboldt - Ciudad de Santa Fe