Master engineers of the world's highest coastal range, the Tairona laced the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with stone-paved roads, terraced cities and the granite plazas of Teyuna (the Lost City).
After decades of resistance the great rebellion of 1599 was crushed by Juan Guiral Belón in 1599-1600; villages were burned and survivors fled to the high Sierra, where their descendants — the Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kankuamo — guard the mountain to this day.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Tairona —
the shape you scrub through changes in 100 · 1525 · 1599.
Moments from the Chronicle
1200Ciudad Perdida built in the Sierra Nevada Tairona builders raise the stone-terraced city of Teyuna (Ciudad Perdida, founded ca. AD 800) high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, linked by paved mountain causeways.
1525Founding of Santa Marta Rodrigo de Bastidas founds Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, the base from which Spain would press — for the next seventy-five years — against the Tairona of the mountains.
1599The Tairona rebellion crushed The great Tairona uprising of 1599 is put down by Juan Guiral Belón in 1599-1600; the mountain towns are burned and the survivors flee to the high Sierra, where their descendants — the Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kankuamo — remain.