Guaynia

Guaynia

Guaynia

Southern coast of Puerto Rico in pre-Columbian era

Guaynia was the territory that stretched along the southern coast of Puerto Rico in the pre-Columbian era.[1] The Taino cacique (tribal chief) Agüeybaná[2] ruled the area around Guayanilla when Christopher Columbus landed in Puerto Rico in 1493.[3]

Statue of Agüeybaná II, The Brave

References

  1. [1]
    Francisco Michelena y Rojas (1867). Exploración oficial por la primera vez desde el norte de la America del Sur (in Spanish). A. Locroix, Verboeckhoven. p. 400.
  2. [2]
    José R. Oliver (10 May 2009). Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. University of Alabama Press. pp. 203–. ISBN 978-0-8173-5515-9.
  3. [3]
    Diaz Soler, Luis Manuel (1950). Historia De La Esclavitud Negra en Puerto Rico (Thesis). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. Retrieved 2021-01-12.

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