page_title: Liborio Zerda
hierarchical_section_title: Liborio Zerda
caption_attribution_description: Español: La balsa muisca de las ofrendas es una pieza de orfebrería precolombina elaborada por la cultura muisca que se exhibe en la "Sala La Ofrenda" del Museo del Oro del Banco de la República de Colombia en Bogotá. La pieza fue encontrada en 1969 en Pasca, Cundinamarca. Esta balsa de oro es considerada el símbolo de la leyenda de "El Dorado" y la pieza más legendaria del Museo del Oro de Bogotá. Representa el acto de investidura de poder de los jefes muiscas, cuyos cuerpos desnudos eran bañados con oro en polvo y desde la balsa arrojaban oro, esmeraldas y otras ofrendas en el medio las aguas de la laguna Guatavita. La pieza fue elaborada entre 600 y 1600 d. C. y se usó la técnica de vaciado de oro con una pequeña cantidad de cobre en un molde de cera que se elabora a partir de un prototipo tradicionalmente modelado en cera de abeja. Sus dimensiones son 10,1 cm de ancho, 19,5 cm de longitud y 10,2 cm de altura. English: The Muisca Raft is the symbol of El Dorado legend and the most legendary piece exhibited at the Gold Museum of Bogotá, Colombia. This raft made of gold was found in Pasca, Cundinamarca. The raft represents the ceremony that used to take place in Lake Guatavita where the zipa cover his body in gold dust and drop gold and emerald offering into the lake.
context_page_description: Liborio Zerda was a Colombian physician and Muisca scholar. Zerda has been important in the natural sciences of the late 19th and early 20th century in Colombia, publishing many articles about various topics, from medicine to chemical analysis, radioactivity and the popular drink chicha.
  Zerda was contemporaneous with other Muisca scholars, and influenced by them; Joaquín Acosta and Ezequiel Uricoechea. He analysed the work done by José Domingo Duquesne on the Muisca numerals and published in 1883 his major work El Dorado about the mythical El Dorado, that he situated not in Lake Guatavita as is currently accepted to have been the site of the inauguration of the new zipa, but in the Siecha Lakes in the Chingaza Natural National Park.
  Liborio Zerda taught at the Colegio del Rosario in Bogotá for 60 years and died on 9 November 1919 in the Colombian capital.
context_section_description: Liborio Zerda (Bogotá, Republic of New Granada, 10 July 1834 (other sources state 1830 or 1833) - Bogotá, Colombia, 9 November 1919) was a Colombian physician and Muisca scholar. Zerda has been important in the natural sciences of the late 19th and early 20th century in Colombia, publishing many articles about various topics, from medicine to chemical analysis, radioactivity and the popular drink chicha.
  Zerda was contemporaneous with other Muisca scholars, and influenced by them; Joaquín Acosta and Ezequiel Uricoechea. He analysed the work done by José Domingo Duquesne on the Muisca numerals and published in 1883 his major work El Dorado about the mythical El Dorado, that he situated not in Lake Guatavita as is currently accepted to have been the site of the inauguration of the new zipa, but in the Siecha Lakes in the Chingaza Natural National Park.
  Liborio Zerda taught at the Colegio del Rosario in Bogotá for 60 years and died on 9 November 1919 in the Colombian capital.
caption: Zerda's most renowned work El Dorado (1883) tells about the ritual at Lake Guatavita, represented in the golden Muisca raft, which was not found until after Zerda's death
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