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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.
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.
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]
Who remembers that early 2000s Nickelodeon show Taina? The series only ran from 2001 to 2002, but that theme song is forever stuck in our head. Actress Christina Vidal Mitchell played the main ...
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]
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]