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Sector La Vega de Taní Barrio Tibes Ponce, Puerto Rico: Type: Archeology museum: Visitors: 60,000–80,000 per year [2] Director: José Reyes Feliciano (default Director) [2] Owner: Autonomous Municipality of Ponce: Website: visitponce.com /projects /parque-indigena-tibes
Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1552) Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, Axel Springer ISBN 84-7700-006-9 SL Fombrun, Odette Roy (2006) History of my country, Haiti 1 ISBN 978-99935-0-133-6
He fled to Hispaniola to what now is Dominican Republic after the 1511-16 Taino rebellion. [5] Acanorex: Cacique on Ayiti (currently Hispaniola) [6] Agüeybaná (The Great Sun) Cacique whose name means "The Great Sun" was "Supreme Cacique" in Puerto Rico who welcomed Juan Ponce de León and the conquistadors. His yucayeque was on the Guayanilla ...
Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, Ayiti or Quisqueya to the Taínos (the Spaniards named it La Española, i.e., Hispaniola — now known as the Dominican Republic and Haiti) was divided into five kingdoms, i.e., Xaragua, Maguana, Higüey, Maguá, and Marién. Anacaona was born into a family of caciques.
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]
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]
Three months later, Hernando de la Torre targeted Orocobix. [40] On June 10, 1512, Álvaro de Saavedra entered into the lands of Guayama. [ 40 ] Two days later, the Spanish breached the domain of Agüeybana II, with Gil leading the horseback attack and carrying back a couple of natives who were sold as slaves. [ 6 ]
Tainan (/ ˈ t aɪ ˈ n ɑː n /), [7] officially Tainan City, [I] is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the "prefectural capital" [II] for its over 260 years of history as the capital of Taiwan under the Dutch rule, the Kingdom of Tungning and later Qing dynasty rule until 1887.