# Nompanim

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|successor       = [Sugamuxi](/source/Sugamuxi)
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thumb|right|260px|The (reconstructed) '''Sun Temple''' in Sugamuxi; seat of Nompanim

'''Nompanim''' or '''Nomparem''' ([Chibcha](/source/Chibcha_language): "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](/source/Universidad_Distrital_Francisco_Jos%C3%A9_de_Caldas)</ref> (15th century - first third of 16th century) was the penultimate ''[iraca](/source/iraca)''; ''[cacique](/source/cacique)'' of the sacred City of the Sun; [Sugamuxi](/source/Sogamoso). Sugamuxi, presently called Sogamoso, was an important city in the [religion](/source/Muisca_religion) of the [Muisca](/source/Muisca_people) who inhabited the [Altiplano Cundiboyacense](/source/Altiplano_Cundiboyacense) in the times before the [Spanish conquest of the Muisca](/source/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Muisca) [conquistador](/source/conquistador)es reached the central highlands of the [Colombia](/source/Colombia)n [Andes](/source/Andes). Fellow [Muisca rulers](/source/Muisca_rulers) of other territories within the [Muisca Confederation](/source/Muisca_Confederation) were [Tundama](/source/Tundama) in [Tundama](/source/Duitama), ''[zaque](/source/zaque)'' [Quemuenchatocha](/source/Quemuenchatocha) in [Hunza](/source/Tunja) and ''[zipa](/source/zipa)s'' [Nemequene](/source/Nemequene) and [Tisquesusa](/source/Tisquesusa) in [Bacatá](/source/Bogot%C3%A1).

== Biography ==
According to the traditions of the northern Muisca, the ''iraca'' of Sugamuxi was chosen alternating between the ''caciques'' of [Firavitoba](/source/Firavitoba) and [Tobasía](/source/Floresta%2C_Boyac%C3%A1). Nompanim, from Tobasía, was the successor of ''Bermejo'' ([Spanish](/source/Spanish_language) given name), as ''cacique'' of Sugamuxi. Bermejo was an [usurper](/source/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](/source/Quemuenchatocha) with an army of 20,000 [guecha warrior](/source/guecha_warrior)s in the ''Battle of Los Arroyos'' against ''zipa'' [Nemequene](/source/Nemequene), fought around 1514.<ref name=Pueblos/> The army of the ''zaque'', supported by Nompanim, ''Tundama'', and the ''caciques'' of [Gámeza](/source/G%C3%A1meza) and [Sáchica](/source/S%C3%A1chica) won this battle and Nemequene died the next day, succeeded by Tisquesusa.

The seat of Nompanim was the [Sun Temple](/source/Sun_Temple_(Sogamoso)) in Sogamoso, that was destroyed by soldiers of [Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada](/source/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_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](/source/Sugamuxi), the last ''iraca'' of the City of the Sun, who confronted the Spanish conquerors and converted to [catholicism](/source/catholicism).<ref name=Distrital/>

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=== Nompanim in Muisca history ===
{{History of the Muisca}}

== See also ==
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*[Sun Temple](/source/Sun_Temple_(Sogamoso)), [iraca](/source/iraca), [Code of Nemequene](/source/Nemequene)

== References ==
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