Cayacoa

Cayacoa is a name associated with a Taíno leader of Higüey, the eastern part of Hispaniola. The chiefdom extended over a wide country of coastal plains and river valleys, including the region of the Higuamo River. Its communities were governed by local leaders before the Spanish conquest, and Cayacoa’s name survives in accounts of that Indigenous political landscape.

The later city of Santo Domingo lies here.