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Cayetano Coll y Toste's 1901 map of Puerto Rico caciques [42] The Taíno were the most culturally advanced of the Arawak group to settle in what is now Puerto Rico. [43] Individuals and kinship groups that previously had some prestige and rank in the tribe began to occupy the hierarchical position that would give way to the cacicazgo. [44]
The Centro Ceremonial Indigena at Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico, was discovered during the days after heavy rain downpours. The survey was conducted by the Sociedad Guaynia de Arqueologia e Historia and was sponsored by the Puerto Rico Institute of Culture. Clearing the area's high brush revealed a number of shell middens, as well as the major ...
Early 20th c. map published by the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology showing the Cayniabon area under Chief Canobana. The region of what is now Canóvanas belonged to the Taíno region of Cayniabón, also the native name of the Grande de Loiza River, which stretched from the central eastern region of Puerto Rico to the northeast coast of the island. [2]
The peak itself, standing at 1,080 metres (3,540 feet) above sea level is not the highest in Puerto Rico or even the Sierra de Luquillo range where it is located. It is however the most famous peak due to its curious shape, its natural environment and history, and for its cultural importance to the Taino people. The peak is nearly always ...
Cacique of yucayeque around Culebrinas river in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican anthropologist Ricardo Alegría suggests that the proper pronunciation and name of the cacique was Aymaco, with Aymamón being a way of designating the cacique that ruled over the region called Aymamio, or possibly just a misunderstanding of the name's adequate ...
Taino reenactment in Puerto Rico. The Taíno, an Arawak people, were the major population group throughout most of the Caribbean. Their culture was divided into three main groups, the Western Taíno, the Classic Taíno, and the Eastern Taíno, with other variations within the islands.
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]
Statue of Agüeybaná II in Parque Monumento, Ponce The native Taíno tribes have played a major role in the history and culture of the island of Puerto Rico.At the head of each tribe was a cacique who, along with the nitaínos, governed each of the yucayeques, or villages of the island.