Bayaquitiri

Bayaquitirí was an Indigenous district in eastern Cuba, named in early accounts of the island and its conquest. Its name also appears in variants such as Bayatiquirí. Diego Velázquez, the first Spanish governor, held Indigenous people in this district under the colonial system of encomienda. The survival of the name in early records recalls a landscape of communities that existed before the Spanish towns of eastern Cuba.

The later city of Santiago de Cuba lies here.