Crossword-Solution: ZIPA 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

According to this author the Chibchas were composed of three loosely united nationalities governed by three independent chiefs--the _Zipa_ of Muequetá (the present Funza), the _Zaque_ of Hunsa (now Tunja), and the _Jeque_ of Iraca, who was regarded as the successor of the god Nemterequeteba, whom they worshipped as the author of their civilization.

This tradition had its origin in the kingdom of Quito where Luiz Daza, in 1535, met with an Indian of New Granada who had been sent by his prince, the Zipa of Bogotá, or the Caique of Tunja, to demand assistance from Atahuahalpa, the last Inca of Peru.

The numerous nation of the Chibchas inhabited the southern plateaux, who acknowledged allegiance to the zipa of Meuqueta.

The Zipa of Bogotá, at the period of the conquest, was the most considerable of the native rulers in what is now Colombia, having an empire only less in extent than those of the Peruvian Incas and of the Aztec Kings.

Tunja was another power to the east of Bogotá declining before the rising power of the Zipas, its Zaque (as the Tunjan caciques were called) being saved from the Zipa's forces by the arrival of the Spaniards.