Martín Galeano
Coat of arms of the Galeano family
Born	Genoa or Valencia del Mombuey, Badajoz, Castile
Died	Vélez, New Kingdom of Granada
Occupations	Conquistador
Years active	1536-?
Employer	Spanish Crown
Known for	Spanish conquest of the Muisca Spanish conquest of the Guane Founder ofVélez,Oiba &Charalá
Spouses	Unnamed Isabel Juan de Meteller
Children	1
Notes
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Martín Galeano was a Spanishconquistador ofGenovese descent who is known as the founder of the towns ofVélez,Oiba andCharalá inSantander, Colombia. He took part in the expedition of theSpanish conquest of the Muisca led byGonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. After the foundation ofBogotá, he was sent northwards intoGuane territories.^[1]

Martín Galeano was born inValencia del Mombuey,Badajoz or Genoa and had one brother, Pedro Galeano, and one sister, Ángela Jiménez Galeano. He married twice: with an unnamed woman; and with Isabel Juan de Meteller, formerly married to Pedro Ortuño Royo. With the unnamed woman, Galeano had one daughter; Marina, or Martina, Galeano, who became anencomendera.

Name bold is founded	Department	Date	Year	Notes	Map
Vélez	Santander	2 July or 14 September	1539	[2][3]
Oiba	Santander	28 February	1540	[4]
Charalá	Santander	23 July	1540	[5]
Simacota	Santander		1551

• List of conquistadors in Colombia
• Spanish conquest of the Muisca
• El Dorado
• Spanish conquest of the Guane,Hernán Pérez de Quesada
• Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada,Guane,Vélez

• Rodríguez Freyle, Juan; Achury Valenzuela, Darío (1979) [1859 (1638)],El Carnero - Conquista i descubrimiento del nuevo reino de Granada de las Indias Occidentales del mar oceano, i fundacion de la ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogota(PDF) (in Spanish), Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch, pp. 1–598, retrieved2016-11-21

• Acosta, Joaquín (1848),Compendio histórico del descubrimiento y colonización de la Nueva Granada en el siglo décimo sexto - Historical overview of discovery and colonization of New Granada in the sixteenth century, Paris: Beau Press, pp. 1–460,OCLC 23030434, retrieved2016-07-08

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• 16th-century Spanish landowners

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