Sutagao

The Sutagao were a small Chibchan-speaking people of the southern edge of the Bogotá savanna, holding the hills between the Sumapaz wilderness and the Pasca River around Fusagasugá. Their name meant 'sons of the sun', and a noble class governed with the guidance of idols and priests.

Around 1470 the Sutagao and their Panche allies, led by the cacique of Fusagasugá, were defeated by the zipa Saguamanchica at Pasca and fell under Muisca overlordship. After Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada conquered the Muisca, his brother Hernán Pérez de Quesada reduced the Sutagao to the New Kingdom of Granada.

In 1562 the oidor Bernardino Albornoz founded the Spanish town of Fusagasugá on their lands. A royal visit counted 759 natives there, but by Aróstequi's visit in February 1760 only 85 remained beside 644 settlers in 109 families.