Pasca is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca

Cundinamarca Department

- Origin of the name :The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probably derived from Quechua. Meaning "Condor's Nest", it was used in pre-Columbian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands....

 department of Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 located over the Andes mountains. It belongs to the Sumapaz province.

Name

Pasca in the chibchan language means father's fence, according to Acosta Ortegón.

Tourism

The famous Muisca

Muisca

Muisca was the Chibcha-speaking tribe that formed the Muisca Confederation of the central highlands of present-day Colombia. They were encountered by the Spanish Empire in 1537, at the time of the conquest...

n golden boat, representing the ritual of El Dorado, was found in Pasca. The boat is now part of the Gold Museum

Gold Museum

The Gold Museum is a museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It displays an extraordinary selection of its pre-Hispanic gold work collection - the biggest in the world - in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors...

 collection in Bogotá

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

.

The town contains an archaeological

Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...

 museum

Museum

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 and a natural history museum.

Famous pasqueños

The Colombian poet and politician Adolfo León Gómez

Adolfo León Gómez

Adolfo León Gómez was a Colombian poet, jurist and politician born in Pasca, Cundinamarca. He was a grandson of Josefa Acevedo de Gomez, the first civilian woman writer in Colombia.-Further reading:...

 was born in Pasca and his grandmother, poet Josefa Acevedo de Gomez

Josefa Acevedo de Gomez

Josefa Acevedo de Gomez was the first civilian woman writer in Colombia. She was born in Bogotá and died in Pasca, Cundinamarca.She was grandmother of Colombian politician and poet Adolfo Leon Gomez.- External links :*...

, lived and wrote her work here.
The famous native woman Zoratama

Zoratama

Famous Indian girl in Colombian history. She contributed to the victory of the Spaniard Conquistadores. She lived in Pasca, Cundinamarca and was the lover of conquistador Lázaro Fonte.Her story is similar to the North American native Pocahontas....

 also lived in Pasca.

See also

• Archeological Museum of Pasca
  Archeological Museum of Pasca
  The Archeological Museum of Pasca is a museum located at Pasca, Colombia. It houses a great collection of pre-columbian objects and human remains, including chibchan mummies...
  
  
• El Dorado Myth
  El Dorado
  El Dorado is the name of a Muisca tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and, as an initiation rite, dived into a highland lake.Later it became the name of a legendary "Lost City of Gold" that has fascinated – and so far eluded – explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors...
  
  
• Sumapaz National Park

External links

• Official site of the Municipality of Pasca
• Official site - Government of Cundinamarca
• Precolumbian Golden Boat Famous golden figure based on El Dorado rite (housed in the Gold Museum
  Gold Museum
  The Gold Museum is a museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It displays an extraordinary selection of its pre-Hispanic gold work collection - the biggest in the world - in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors...
  
   at Bogotá
  Bogotá
  Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
  
  , Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
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• Unofficial site of the Natural and Archeological Museum of Pasca
• Precolumbian Gold Museum of Colombia Schedule of exhibitions
• Photos of precolumbian art found at Pasca