Turmequé was formerly a tax Zaque village
of Hunza, along the border was Quimuinchatecha tribe to the south. In 1490
there was a conflict between the forces of Zipa Bacatá Zaque Hunza and outside
the village, for supremacy in the region. Bartering in the pre-Columbian town
was one of the most important activities in the economy, was traded for salt
example of Zipaquirá , or earthenware brought from Ráquira .
Decades after the Spanish conquistador Gonzalo
Jimenez de Quesada discovers the people in the year 1537, and taken to Spain
