Agüeybaná (other)
Agüeybaná may refer to: *Agüeybaná I (died 1510), Taíno cacique on Puerto Rico during Spanish contact *Agüeybaná II Agüeybaná II (c. 14701511), born Güeybaná and also known as Agüeybaná El Bravo (English: ''Agüeybaná The Brave''), was one of the two principal and most powerful ''caciques'' of the Taíno people in Borikén when the Spaniards first arriv ...

Agüeybaná I
Agüeybaná (died 1510) was the principal and most powerful ''cacique'' (Tribal chief, chief) of the Taíno people in Puerto Rico#Etymology, Borikén, modern-day Puerto Rico, when the Spanish first arrived on the island on November 19, 1493. Etymology ''Agüeybana'', which has been interpreted by 19th and 20th century authors as meaning "The Great Sun", was the hereditary title shared by the family that ruled the theocratic monarchy of Borikén, governing the hierarchy over the rest of the regional chiefs or caciques. Like other nobiliary recognitions within Kalinago culture, it was passed down through the maternal bloodline. The Spanish settlers Hispanicized the title to be the equivalent of the European concept of kings, with contemporary writers such as Juan de Castellanos and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés employing the title of ''Rey Agüeybana'' (English: "King Agüeybana") when referring to the second monarch to lead the Taíno during the 1510s. By the 1800s, the t ...
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