# Chibcha Terrane

The Chibcha Terrane (Spanish: Terreno Chibcha, TCH), named after Chibcha, is the largest of the geological provinces (terranes) of Colombia. The terrane, the oldest explored domains of which date to the Meso- to Neoproterozoic, is situated on the North Andes Plate. The megaregional Romeral Fault System forms the contact of the terrane with the Tahamí Terrane. The contact with the Caribbean and La Guajira Terranes is formed by the regional Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault. The northeastern boundary is formed by the regional Oca Fault, bounding the La Guajira Terrane. The terrane is emplaced over the Río Negro-Juruena Province of the Amazonian Craton along the megaregional Eastern Frontal Fault System.
Geological Terranes Map of Colombia. Terrane abbreviation is in parentheses in the legend, followed by a hyphen and age notation. K1: Early Cretaceous, T: Triassic, P: Permian, D: Devonian, C1: Mississippian, MP: Mesoproterozoic, NP: Neoproterozoic, and PP: Paleoproterozoic.

## Reinterpretation

A study performed by Mora Bohórquez et al. in 2017 showed no basement variation between the San Lucas basement underlying the Lower Magdalena Valley (VIM) and the SNSM basement to the east of the Santa Marta Fault. The authors redefined the contacts between the different terranes, using the names Calima Terrane for the coastal portion of the Caribbean Terrane (San Jacinto and Sinú foldbelts) and Tahamí-Panzenú Terrane for the Tahamí Terrane.

## Subdivision

Some authors consider the Garzón Complex a separate terrane; the Andaquí Terrane.

### Complexes
#### SNSM - Early Eocene

* Santa Marta Batholith
* San Lorenzo
* Socorro
* Bolívar
* Aracataca
* Los Clavos
* Central Batholith
* Río Sevilla
* Latal
* San Lorenzo
* San Pedro de la Sierra
* Río Oríhueca
* Golero
* Los Tábanos
* Atánquez
* Nueva Lucha
* La Piña
* La Caja de Ahorros
* La Paila
* Buritacá

#### SNSM Paleozoic

* Los Indios-Corual - Lopingian
* Chundúa - Carboniferous (~Moscovian) to Permian (Guadalupian)
* Los Mangos - basement
* Dibuya - Mesoproterozoic (1000 Ma)

#### Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (La Guajira Terrane)

* Tanganga (Taganga)
* Rodadero
* Gaira (Gaira)
* Ciénaga

#### Perijá

* Palmarito - Cisuralian-Guadalupian
* Manaure - Moscovian-Gzhelian
* Río Cachirí
* La Virgen or Guaca - Silurian (Ludlow)
* Perjiá Series - Neoproterozoic basement

#### Santander - Neoproterozoic-Ordovician

* Tiburón - Lopingian
* Diamante - Artinskian-Guadalupian
* Río Chitagá - Givetian
* San Pedro (formerly 'Silgará Formation')
* Chicamocha (idem)
* Pescadero
* La Corcova
* Bucamanga - basement

#### Floresta - Cambro-Ordovician

* Chuscales
* Otengá
* Santa Rosita
* Buntia
* Chuscales Phyllite
* Busbanzá
* Neoproterozoic 'Nickerian basement

#### Quetame

* Farallones - Carboniferous-Devonian
** Guatiquía - Carboniferous (~Gzhelian) to Permian (Guadalupian)
** Clarín-Guacavia - Carboniferous (~Moscovian to Kasimovian)
** Gutiérrez - Eifelian-Givetian
* Puente Quetame, La Balsa - Silurian (Ludlow)
* Quetame Group - Cambro-Ordovician
* Neoproterozoic unnamed basement
* Sombrerillo Quartzmonzodiorite
* Sombrerillo Porphyrics
* Altamira
* Mazamorras

#### La Macarena - Mesoproterozoic

* Ariarí

#### San Lucas - Cambrian

* La Cocha-Río Tellez
* Norosí
* Bolívar
* Segovia
* Icarco
* La Magdalena
* San Lucas
* Puente Linda
* El Morro
* La Miel
* Norcasía
* El Hatillo

#### Southwestern Chibcha

* El Bosque
* Santa Isabel
* Samaná Igneous Complex
** Samaná Alaskite
* San Diego
* Padua
* Anchique
* Dolores

#### Andaquí Terrane
##### Garzón - Neoproterozoic

* Garzón
** Garzón Granite
** Garzón Group
** Florencia Migmatite
** Florencia Stock
** El Recreo
** El Astillero
** Las Minas Monzodiorite
** Las Minas Migmatite
** Ibagué
** Teruel Batholith
** Teruel Quartzmonzodiorite
** San Cayetano
** Tierradentro
** Algeciras
** Caño Veinte
** La Plata
** Guapotón
** Mariquita
** Aleluya
** Cajamarca

### Volcanoes

* Paipa-Iza volcanic complex (Pliocene)
* Nevado del Huila
* Puracé

### Ranges

* Central
* Eastern
** El Cocuy
** Cerros Orientales
* Perijá
* Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
* San Lucas
* La Macarena

### Basins

* Catatumbo
* Cesar-Ranchería
* Eastern Cordillera
** Altiplano Cundiboyacense
*** Bogotá
*** Chicamocha
* Middle Magdalena (VMM)
* Upper Magdalena (VSM)

### Faults

bounding faults in bold
* Bucaramanga-Santa Marta (BSF)
* Eastern Frontal (EFS)
** Afiladores
** Algeciras
** Garzón-Pitalito
** Guaicáramo
** Guayuriba
** Mocoa
** San Pedro-Cumaral
** Servitá-Santa María
** Sibundoy
** Suazá
** Yopal
** Boconó
* Oca
* Otú Norte
* La Palestina (LPF)
* Romeral (RFS)
* Bagre Norte
* Bituima-La Salina
* Bogotá
* Caño Tomás
* Chitagá-Pamplona
* Cimitarra
* Cucuana
* La Dina
* Honda
* Ibagué
* Irlanda
* La Macarena
* La Plata
* Suárez
* Tarra
* Usme
* Vianí

## Gallery

* North Andes Plate
* Seismic activity map
* Map of Chibcha-speaking peoples
* Extent of the Chibcha
* Paleogeography of the Mesoproterozoic