Yacupipizote

Yacupipizote is associated with Yacopí, in the forested western slopes of Colombia’s Eastern Cordillera. The Yacopí people inhabited this country before Spanish conquest, cultivating land along streams and living among neighbouring Indigenous groups. A colonial record of 1617 places their settlements and fields on one bank of a stream, with the Chizo on the other. The steep valleys descend toward the Magdalena River.