Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano (1510 – after 1583) was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada - Banco de la República He accompanied Gonzalo Suárez Rendón in the foundation of Tunja on August 6, 1539, and settled in the city. In 1583, Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano was mayor of Tunja together with Francisco de Avendaño.Muñoz Cárdenas, 2014, p.20
Biography Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano was born in 1510 in the Extremaduran village Villafranca de los Barros with parents Juan Martin Camacho Savidos and Elvira Gonzáles Zambrana. He had a brother named Juan Martin Camacho Sabidos. Camacho Zambrano married Isabel Pérez de Cuéllar and the couple had seven children; two sons and five daughters. Isabel's sister Elvira married fellow conquistador Pedro Ruíz Corredor.
See also
List of conquistadors in Colombia Spanish conquest of the Muisca El Dorado Tunja, Hernán Pérez de Quesada Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo Suárez Rendón
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