Juan de Sanct Martín, also known as Juan de San Martín, was a Spanish conquistador. Little is known about De Sanct Martín, apart from a passage in El Carnero (1638) by Juan Rodríguez Freyle and Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada, a work of uncertain authorship.Epítome, p.82 He took part in the expedition from Santa Marta into the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and founded Cuítiva, Boyacá in 1550. List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada - Banco de la República Juan de Sanct Martín headed the left flank of the Spanish troops in the Battle of Tocarema against the Panche on August 20, 1538, while his fellow conquistador Juan de Céspedes commanded the right flank. In this battle, Juan de Sanct Martín killed the cacique of the Panche and was hurt himself.Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.117 Juan de Sanct Martín had confronted the Panche the year before, when he was sent to the west while De Céspedes went south. Due to the resistance of the bellicose Panche, De Sanct Martín returned to the Spanish camp.Blanco Barros, s.a., p.3
Conquest by Juan de Sanct Martín Name Department Date Year Notes Map El Colegio Cundinamarca 1537 Official website El Colegio Pesca Boyacá 20 December 1548 Pesca Cuítiva Boyacá 19 January 1550 Official website Cuítiva
See also
List of conquistadors in Colombia Spanish conquest of the Muisca El Dorado Hernán Pérez de Quesada Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
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