Battle of Tocarema

Battle of Tocarema
Part of Spanish conquest of New Granada
Map of the Muisca Confederation Tocarema is at the border of Muisca & Panche
Date 19–20 August 1538 Location Tocarema, Panche territory 4°45′02″N 74°26′05″W / 4.75056°N 74.43472°W / 4.75056; -74.43472 Result Spanish and Muisca victory Territorial changes Panche partially submitted to Spanish colonial reign
Belligerents
Spanish conquistadors Zipazgo of the southern Muisca	Caciques of the Panche
Commanders and leaders
Gonzalo de Quesada  Juan de St. Martín  Juan de Céspedes  Pedro de Valenzuela Sagipa	Anolaima, Cochima, Lutaima, Lichinú, Ibiantor, Calandaima, Iqueima, Tocarema, Buluduaima, Matima, & Siquima
Strength
50-100 Spanish 4,000-20,000 guecha	unknown
Casualties and losses
Fatalities:  ~100 guecha Wounded:  many Muisca  ~30 Spanish	unknown
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Battle of Tocarema class=notpageimage| Location of the battle

The Battle of Tocarema (Spanish: Batalla de Tocarema) was fought between an alliance of the troops of Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and zipa of the Muisca Sagipa of the southern Muisca Confederation and the indigenous Panche. The battle took place on the afternoon of August 19 and the morning of August 20, 1538 in the vereda Tocarema of Cachipay, Cundinamarca, Colombia and resulted in a victory for the Spanish and Muisca, when captains Juan de Céspedes and Juan de Sanct Martín commanded two flanks of the conquistadors.

The victory of the Spanish colonial powers over the Panche did not completely suppress the resistance of the indigenous peoples from the western parts of Cundinamarca. Later conquest expeditions were needed to fully subdue the western neighbours of the Muisca, described by early Spanish chroniclers Pedro de Aguado, Pedro Simón, Juan Freyle, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita as bellicose and cannibalistic.