Antonio de Lebrija (conquistador)

He was the treasurer of the conquest expedition which left Santa Marta in April 1536 following the high quality salt trail, the Camino de la Sal, along the Suárez River up the slopes of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes towards the Muisca Confederation.

[1] He left Spain for the New World with García de Lerma, arriving at Santa Marta in 1529.

[5] They selected a location in Teusaquillo, where Santa Fe de Bogotá was founded on August 6, 1538.

Guataquí, on the Magdalena River, was the port where De Albarracín ordered the construction of two small boats by the indigenous Panche people.

[1][3] In Cartagena, in July 1539, de Lebrija authored a letter to the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, describing the activities in the New Kingdom.

Antonio de Lebríja was the treasurer of the expedition along the green route from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation