El Carnero

The Billygoat (Spanish: El Carnero) in its native language, is perhaps the most important literary work of the Colombian colonial times. It is a chronicle of history and customs written in 1638 by the American-born Juan Rodríguez Freyle. It tells the story of the American conquest, the discovery of the New Kingdom of Granada and the foundation and first century of the city of Bogotá: It explains it was the first city of the kingdom to have an established royal audience and a chancellery. It also describes the Indian peoples that inhabited the region during the conquest, the civil wars between them, and their customs and culture.

The chronicle is intended to be historical, but includes also several fictional elements through short stories. It is generally stated that these short stories are of great importance in the Hispano-American literature movement.^[1]

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• El Carnero