Guacanagaríx
Guacanagarix was one of five Taíno caciques of the Caribbean island henceforth known as Hispaniola at the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. This was contemporaneous with the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus.
He was the chief of the cacicazgo of Marién, which occupied the northwest of the island.
Guacanagarix received Christopher Columbus after the Santa María was wrecked during his first voyage to the New World. He allowed Columbus to establish the settlement of La Navidad near his village. The colonists that remained there were killed by a rival tribe before Columbus returned on his second voyage.
Guacanagarix refused to ally himself with other caciques, who were trying to expel the Spaniards from the colony of Santo Domingo, and many times served as an informant and spy for the European settlers.
