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The Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center (Spanish: Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes) in Sector La Vega de Taní, [4] Barrio Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico, houses one of the most important archaeological discoveries made in the Antilles.
Cacique (Chief) Taína, Indigenous of the island of Hispaniola. Taíno society was based on a matrilineal system and descent was traced through the mother. Women lived in village groups containing their children. The men lived separately. As a result, Taíno women had extensive control over their lives and their fellow villagers. [76]
Noris Díaz Pérez (born October 2, 1975), also known as La Taína, is a Puerto Rican model and host. She appeared on the now defunct late-night show No te Duermas from 1996 to 2007. [1] In addition to her work on television, she has appeared in numerous commercials and ads for beers and other products. Taína was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Cacique who Reigned over the territory of Sabaneque Çaguax Sagua La Grande, Cuba. [16] Camagüebax: Cacique Of Camagüey, and Father of Tínima Executed by Pánfilo de Narváez was killed and his body thrown from the highest elevation in Camagüey, the Tuabaquey hill in the Sierra de Cubitas mountains, (330 meters /1,083 ft.) above sea level. [20]
Central offices of the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers. The Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (Spanish: Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores; INFONAVIT) is the Mexican federal institute for worker's housing, founded in 1972, and located at Barranca del Muerto 280, in Mexico City.
Agüeybana El Bravo: La recuperación de un símbolo [Agüeybana El Bravo: Recovery of a symbol] (in Spanish). Ediciones Puerto. ISBN 9781934461181. Rouse, Irving (1983). The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300161830
Agüeybaná, the older, received Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León upon Ponce de León's arrival to Puerto Rico in 1508. According to an old Taíno tradition, Agüeybaná practiced the "guaytiao", a Taíno ritual in which he and Juan Ponce de León became friends and exchanged names. [7]
Yúcahu [1] —also written as Yucáhuguama Bagua Maórocoti, Yukajú, Yocajú, Yokahu or Yukiyú— was the masculine spirit of fertility in Taíno mythology. [2] He was the supreme deity or zemi of the Pre-Columbian Taíno people along with his mother Atabey who was his feminine counterpart. [3]