-
governed by
chiefs known as caciques, who were the
maximum authority in a
Yucayeque (village). The
chiefs were
advised by priest-healers
known as a Bohique...
-
Salcedo to
determine whether the
Spanish were gods. He was the
cacique of "
Yucayeque del Yagüeka or Yagüeca",
which today lies in the
region between Añasco...
- 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...
- area of San Juan used to be the
boundary between the
tribal regions (
yucayeques) of
Guaynabo and Haimanio, led by the
chiefs (caciques) Mabo and Yuisa...
-
small cotton apron,
called a nagua. The Taíno
lived in
settlements called yucayeques,
which varied in size
depending on the location.
Those in
Puerto Rico...
- include: Abey
Carnival –
February to
celebrate Abey –
Cacique (Chief) of
Yucayeque, a
former Taino village in the area of Abeyno,
Salinas Pescao Festival...
- name
Arecibo comes from the Taíno
chief Xamaica Arasibo,
cacique of the
yucayeque (Taíno settlement) of
Abacoa where the
Spanish town of
Arecibo was settled...
-
possession of the Island,
there were
about twenty Taino villages,
called yucayeque. It is
believed [by whom?] [citation needed] that Taíno
settlements ranged...
- Caguax, who at the time of the
Spanish arrival in 1493 was
cacique of the
yucayeque and
region of Turabo. The name
Caguax itself might be
related to the Taino...
-
tribe was a
cacique who,
along with the nitaínos,
governed each of the
yucayeques, or
villages of the island. It has been
suggested that the
first tribe...
