Tahamies

The Tahamíes were an Indigenous people of the mountainous country between the Cauca and Porce rivers in Antioquia. Their communities inhabited valleys and steep slopes before Spanish conquest, cultivating maize and making use of river and forest resources. Sixteenth-century expeditions brought the region under colonial pressure, as Spaniards sought gold and Indigenous labour. The Cauca River linked these mountain districts with settlements farther south and north.