Toquegua

The Toquegua were an Indigenous people of the Caribbean coast of present-day Guatemala and Honduras. In the sixteenth century they traded cacao and quetzal feathers and hosted Yucatec Maya in their communities.

In 1604 the leaders of Xocolo and Amatique, backed by the threat of Spanish force, persuaded 190 Toquegua to settle on the Amatique coast. By 1699 high mortality and intermarriage with the Amatique had ended their existence as a separate people.