2019年7月19日 · Un yucayeque podía contener más de cincuenta viviendas de diferentes tamaños. Estas comunidades eran gobernadas por un jefe al cual se le llamaba cacique. Podía reconocerse al cacique porque, a diferencia de los demas taínos, éste utilizaba en su cuello una especie de medalla de oro a la que llamaban guanín.

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.

Cacique (Chief) of yucayeque- (village) in the area of Abeyno Salinas, Puerto Rico. He fled to Hispaniola to what now is Dominican Republic after the 1511-16 Taino rebellion. [5] Cacique whose name means "The Great Sun" was "Supreme Cacique" in Puerto Rico who welcomed Juan Ponce de León and the conquistadors.

Caguax was the cacique of Turabo, in Borikén (Puerto Rico). Caguax favored negotiation with the Spanish to try to protect his people. After the Taíno first revolted in 1511, Caguax was one of only two Caciques to accept a peace agreement with Ponce deLeon.

2019年4月23日 · Los nitaínos ayudaban al cacique a tomar decisiones para el yucayeque, pero también eran los que defendían la comunidad de los indios caribe. Al igual que el cacique, estos disfrutaban de ciertos privilegios que no tenían los demás.

La Cara del Indio is a giant sculpture of a Taino Chief carved in stone and embedded into a mountain. Chief Mabodamaca welcomes visitors to Isabela in the western region of Puerto Rico. I am a history enthusiast, and I know the story and legend of Cacique Mabodamaca.

Don Aurelio Tió’s work provides a fascinating look at the Caciques of Puerto Rico, and I found one, in particular, to be very interesting. Many more Caciques were on the island, and many sent to neighboring islands.

2023年11月1日 · The Taino lived in villages of 500 to 1,000 people led by a chief or cacique. Each region had a primary cacique, and there were nobles and workers, according to the descriptions of the society by Spaniards, but there seems to have been little socioeconomic distinction among the groups.

The Taínos are generally considered to be part of the Taíno -Arawak Indians who traveled from the Orinoco-Amazon region of South America to Venezuela to the Caribbean Islands. They were not the first indigenous group to arrive in Puerto Rico: the Archaics had arrived from Florida about 2,500 years ago.

Orocobix was the principal regional Taíno Cacique (chief) of the central mountain region of Puerto Rico called Jatibonicu in the 16th century. The Jatibonicu territorial region covered the present day municipalities of Aibonito, Orocovis, Barranquitas, Morovis and Corozal.The Taíno language name Orocobix or O-roco-bis literally means: 'Remembrance of the First Great Mountain.'