Boya

Boyá was an Indigenous settlement in the inland country north-east of Santo Domingo, among savannas and rivers that lie between the eastern plains and the island's hills. A letter of 1571 described it as a village of Indigenous inhabitants. By 1606 a colonial account recorded only a few houses and a church with a thatched roof and silver ornaments, and noted that many people had gone elsewhere to make a living. Later tradition linked the place with the Taíno leader Enriquillo, who made peace with the Spanish in 1533.