{{Infobox royalty |name = Nompanim |title = Iraca |image = |caption = |reign = |native_lang1 = Chibcha |native_lang1_name1= |predecessor = "''Bermejo''" |successor = Sugamuxi |queen = |dynasty = |father = |mother = |birth_date = ''unknown'' |birth_place = Muisca Confederation |death_date = ''unknown'' |death_place = Muisca Confederation |date of burial = |place of burial = | }} thumb|right|260px|The (reconstructed) '''Sun Temple''' in Sugamuxi; seat of Nompanim
'''Nompanim''' or '''Nomparem''' (Chibcha: "Vessel of the jaguar")<ref name=Distrital>{{in lang|es}} [https://www.udistrital.edu.co/universidad/colombia/historia/prehispanica/muiscas/sugamuxi/ Biography Sugamuxi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204064828/https://www.udistrital.edu.co/universidad/colombia/historia/prehispanica/muiscas/sugamuxi/ |date=2016-02-04 }} - Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas</ref> (15th century - first third of 16th century) was the penultimate ''iraca''; ''cacique'' of the sacred City of the Sun; Sugamuxi. Sugamuxi, presently called Sogamoso, was an important city in the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the times before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca conquistadores reached the central highlands of the Colombian Andes. Fellow Muisca rulers of other territories within the Muisca Confederation were Tundama in Tundama, ''zaque'' Quemuenchatocha in Hunza and ''zipas'' Nemequene and Tisquesusa in Bacatá.
== Biography == According to the traditions of the northern Muisca, the ''iraca'' of Sugamuxi was chosen alternating between the ''caciques'' of Firavitoba and Tobasía. Nompanim, from Tobasía, was the successor of ''Bermejo'' (Spanish given name), as ''cacique'' of Sugamuxi. Bermejo was an usurper to the throne of Sugamuxi, allegedly because he was a redhead.<ref name=Pueblos>{{in lang|es}} [http://pueblosoriginarios.com/biografias/iraca.html Sugamuxi and Nompanim] - Pueblos Originarios</ref> Nompanim supported ''zaque'' Quemuenchatocha with an army of 20,000 guecha warriors in the ''Battle of Los Arroyos'' against ''zipa'' Nemequene, fought around 1514.<ref name=Pueblos/> The army of the ''zaque'', supported by Nompanim, ''Tundama'', and the ''caciques'' of Gámeza and Sáchica won this battle and Nemequene died the next day, succeeded by Tisquesusa.
The seat of Nompanim was the Sun Temple in Sogamoso, that was destroyed by soldiers of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada in September 1537.
Nompanim installed four new laws for his people: 1; don't kill, 2; don't steal, 3; don't lie and 4; don't take someone else's wife. The first crime was punished with the death penalty and for the other crimes lashing was the punishment at the first incident, personal dishonouring for the second and inherited dishonouring for the third time.
Nompanim died in an unknown year shortly after 1514 and was succeeded by Sugamuxi, the last ''iraca'' of the City of the Sun, who confronted the Spanish conquerors and converted to catholicism.<ref name=Distrital/>
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=== Nompanim in Muisca history === {{History of the Muisca}}
== See also == {{Portal|Colombia}} *Sun Temple, iraca, Code of Nemequene
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