What is "iraca"

The iraca, sometimes spelled iraka, was the ruler and high priest of Sugamuxi in the confederation of the Muisca people who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense; the central highlands of the Colombian Andes. Iraca can also refer to the Iraka Valley over which they ruled. Important scholars who wrote about the iraca were Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Alexander von Humboldt and Ezequiel Uricoechea. __NOTOC__

Iraca may refer to:

• Iraca, priest and ruler of the Muisca people
• Iraca (Incan god), god of the Incas
• Iraca (crater), crater on Saturn's Moon Rhea, named after the Incan god
• Carludovica palmata, called palma de iraca in Spanish
• Alexandre Iracà, Canadian politician