The Chitarero were an indigenous Chibcha-speaking people in the Andes of north-eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela.

They were responsible for the death of the German conquistador Ambrosius Ehinger in 1533 by means of poisoned arrows.

At the time of the Spanish conquest of the Chibchan Nations, their territory ranged from present-day Táchira (Venezuela) to the northwest and south of Norte de Santander Department and the northeast of Santander Department (Colombia).

[1] The Chicamocha River formed a southern boundary, the Valegra a southwestern, and the Surata a southeastern.

[2] One of their settlements became the Colombian town of Chinácota; they were primarily known in the area of Pamplona, Colombia.