[1] In the Chibcha language spoken by the Muisca people, the word Güechá has a number of possible meanings.
The Franciscan friar Pedro Simón (1578 – 1620) described the warriors as "men of great physique, bodies, bold, loose, determined and vigilant".
Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita (1624 – 1688) a Catholic prelate described the warriors as "brave and determined men, with big beautiful physiques, lightness and skill".
Unlike the common men, the warriors wore their hair very short[5] and were allowed to wear gold beads and ornaments through edge-pierced ears, nose and lips.
The men went into combat with curled plumes of parrot feathers, and wide ribbons of fine gold encrusted with emeralds.