Higuey

Higuey was a Taíno chiefdom at the eastern end of Hispaniola, where Columbus arrived in 1492. Its leader Cotubanamá resisted Spanish forces sent by Governor Nicolás de Ovando under Juan de Esquivel.

After a truce broke down, Cotubanamá took refuge in a cave on Saona island, where the Spaniards captured him. He was hanged at Santo Domingo in 1504. By 1519 most of the surviving Taíno in the Higuey region had been enslaved.