page_title: Monster of Lake Tota
hierarchical_section_title: Monster of Lake Tota
caption_attribution_description: Español: Laguna de Tota, departamento de Boyacá, Colombia. Tomada desde El Crucero
context_page_description: The Monster of Lake Tota is a legendary aquatic animal known in many works as: diablo ballena, lit. 'devil whale' and is an inhabitant of Lake Tota in Colombia.
  The Muisca, who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, believed this monster was living in Lake Tota. The earliest reference in modern history was made by the conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. He described the monster as "A fish with a black head like an ox and larger than a whale" and Antonio de Alcedo, 1788. The monster was also defined as "a monstrous fish", "a black monster", and even as "the Dragon" and as a "divine animal archetype".
context_section_description: The Monster of Lake Tota is a legendary aquatic animal known in many works as: diablo ballena, lit. 'devil whale' and is an inhabitant of Lake Tota in Colombia.
  The Muisca, who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, believed this monster was living in Lake Tota. The earliest reference in modern history was made by the conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. He described the monster as "A fish with a black head like an ox and larger than a whale" (Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, 1676) and Antonio de Alcedo, 1788 )). The monster was also defined as "a monstrous fish", "a black monster", and even as "the Dragon" and as a "divine animal archetype" (2012).
caption: Lake Tota
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