The Spanish were then faced with the challenging task of transporting their multitude of treasures home. Museo del Oro contains close to 34,000 gold pieces, plus 20,000 bone, stone, ceramic, and textile articles belonging to 13 Pre-Hispanic societies: Tumaco, Nariño, Cauca, Calima, San Agustín, Tierradentro, Tolima, Quimbaya, Muisca, Urabá and Chocó, Malagana, Zenú, and Tairona. Museo del Oro in Bogota, an important gold museum that showcases the Pirate’s legacy, from gold, silver and gems to many other treasures that were of extreme importance. They were willing to sink galleons, kill and do whatever it took to have these riches in their hands. Shortly after, this ignited over 250 years of treasure hunting and vicious competition with the English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese, who all wanted to claim the gold, silver and other treasures for personal gain. Christopher Columbus put the Americas on the map in 1492.
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