Timanae

The Timanae were an indigenous people of the Upper Magdalena valley in what is now the Colombian department of Huila, settled along the Timaná River and the right bank of the Magdalena down to the mouth of the Suaza. The Jesuit Juan de Velasco placed their lands between the Paez to the west and the Andaquí to the east. Some scholars assign their language to the Chibchan family, though the evidence is too thin for a firm classification.

In 1539 and 1540 the cacica Gaitana led the peoples of the Upper Magdalena in armed risings against the Spanish conquest. This resistance was remembered long after the Timanae themselves were absorbed into the colonial population.