Guaynia

Statue of Agüeybaná II, The Brave

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]

References

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. 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. Diaz Soler, Luis Manuel (1950). Historia De La Esclavitud Negra en Puerto Rico (Thesis). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. Retrieved 2021-01-12.