Pijao

The Pijao were Indigenous peoples of the upper Magdalena valley and the central Andes in present-day Colombia. At the Spanish arrival, their chiefdoms formed separate groupings in the lowlands and the mountains rather than a centralized state.

The Pijao wars against Spanish rule lasted around eighty years. In 1608 Juan de Borja campaigned against them, accompanied by the chronicler Pedro Simón; the long conquest killed many Pijao men and brought conversion to Catholicism.