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Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano

Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano

Spanish conquistador

Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano (1510, Villafranca de los Barros, Extremadura, Castile - after 1583, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.[1] He accompanied Gonzalo Suárez Rendón in the foundation of Tunja on August 6, 1539 and settled in the city.[4] In 1583, Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano was mayor of Tunja together with Francisco de Avendaño.[3]

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Biography

Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano was born in 1510 in the Extremaduran village Villafranca de los Barros with parents Juan Martin Camacho Savidos and Elvira Gonzáles Zambrana. He had a brother named Juan Martin Camacho Sabidos. Camacho Zambrano married Isabel Pérez de Cuéllar and the couple had seven children; two sons and five daughters.[2] Isabel's sister Elvira married fellow conquistador Pedro Ruíz Corredor.[5]

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References

  1. [1]
    (in Spanish) List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada - Banco de la República
  2. [2]
    (in Spanish) Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano - Geni
  3. [3]
    Muñoz Cárdenas, 2014, p.20
  4. [4]
    (in Spanish) Cronología histórica - año 1539
  5. [5]
    Pedro Ruiz Corredor - Geni

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