When the Spaniards reached the land now called Colombia and were trying to conquer it, they started to organize the territories and lands of the cities and places they reached. They took the cities by killing the man in charge and then controlling the rest of the population.
This was how the territories were divided
Dominating Community
Territory Tribal
Individual
Territory Tribal
Individual
Territory Tribal
Individual
They passed through many cities before reaching the most important one: Santafe de Bogota. They wanted to take it because it was the most important of all and if they reached and ruled, they would be showing the Colombian people that they would win and conquer them.
One of the main reasons why they were doing that was to take all the gold they found, because Colombia had lots of it. They used the Indians to help them find it. The people of the country told them lots of stories like it was the treasure of El Dorado.
El Dorado was a legend with the story of South America tribal chief who covered him self with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water, so the Spanish had that dream of reaching El Dorado and became rich.
But one thing the Spanish don’t know was all the trouble they would have in the trip to El Dorado, they didn’t know about the jungles and rivers they had to pass to find out that it was only a legend.
