| Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano | |||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1510 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Villafranca de los Barros, Extremadura, Castile | ||||||||||||
| Death Date: | >1583 | ||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada | ||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Castilian | ||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Conquistador | ||||||||||||
| Years Active: | 1536-1539 | ||||||||||||
| Employer: | Spanish Crown | ||||||||||||
| Known For: | Spanish conquest of the Muisca Co-founder of Tunja Quest for El Dorado | ||||||||||||
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| Spouse: | Isabel Pérez de Cuéllar | ||||||||||||
| Children: | Elvira Camacho Zambrano María Zambrana de Cuéllar Juan Camacho Zambrano Juana Zambrana Anastasia Camacho Zambrano Isabel Camacho Sabidos y Zambrano Esteban Zambrana | ||||||||||||
| Mother: | Elvira Gonzáles Zambrana | ||||||||||||
| Father: | Juan Martín Camacho Savidos | ||||||||||||
| Relatives: | Juan Martín Camacho Sabidos (brother) Pedro Ruíz Corredor (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||
Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano (1510, Villafranca de los Barros, Extremadura, Castile - after 1583, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] Isabel's sister Elvira married fellow conquistador Pedro Ruíz Corredor.[4]