The Tahamí were a Colombian Indigenous people who inhabited the

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region west of the

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at the time of the

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; the Nutabe were their northern neighbor and

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their southeastern. They were defined as comparably advanced to the Muisca in ''

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'' and did not have hereditary rulers. It was customary the dead be buried with gold.

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