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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
As early as 1820, Miguel Cabrera identified many of the jíbaros' ideas and characteristics in his set of poems known as The Jibaro's Verses.Then, some 80 years later, in his 1898 book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The native people, as a whole, may be divided into four classes ...
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
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
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.
There, in the Loma de la Cruz, which bisects the town Güinía neighborhoods, the 12 Indians were hanged, the traitor (Gálvez's servant) was hung by his feet and shot in that position. There is an old legend of the town that on certain occasions people see a blue light on the scene where these events took place, preceded by a woman's scream.
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 ]
Caguax was a Taíno cacique who lived on the island of Borinquén (the Taíno name for Puerto Rico) before and during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.The name of his yucayeque, or Taino village, was Turabo; it comprised the Caguas Valley and surrounding mountains. [1]