Pedro Ruíz Corredor

[1] Ruíz Corredor joined the expedition of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada in the quest for El Dorado, leaving Santa Marta in April 1536.

[5] Pedro Ruíz Corredor returned to Spain with the valuables he had obtained in the New Kingdom of Granada.

[1] In June 1570, Ruíz Corredor was back in Oicatá and ordered the Muisca of his encomienda, and the villages of Chivatá, Motavita, Suta, Cómbita and Moniquirá to construct acequias, channels for the drainage of the lands.

[6] In 1601 Ruíz Corredor is mentioned as he having promised to pay the native people in his encomienda 200 cotton mantles, but only supplying half of that.

[2] Elvira's sister Isabel was married to Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano, a fellow conquistador in Colombia.

Pedro Ruiz Corredor was one of the soldiers in the expedition along the green route from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation