Miguel Triana

Miguel Triana Ruiz de Cote (26 November 1859 – 29 April 1931) was a Colombian engineer and Muisca scholar.

[3] Miguel Triana especially contributed to the knowledge of the religion, society and the creation of rock art throughout the Muisca Confederation.

[2] Triana worked as an engineer for the train line of Puerto Wilches, finished in 1883, the central northern highway and train tracks in Cúcuta and on irrigation projects in the Valley of Sogamoso as part of a study to dewater Lake Tota.

[2] Miguel Triana was professor in physics, hydraulics, geometry, trigonometry and drawing at the faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá.

The former work was the result of forty years of studying rock art in Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta and other parts of Colombia.

Miguel Triana studied the possibility of draining Colombia's largest lake, Lake Tota for irrigation around Sogamoso
Pictographs in Sáchica, studied by Miguel Triana
The Muisca script , that consisted of only numbers, was studied by Triana