Guacata

The Guacata lived in southern Florida between the Atlantic coast and the country east of Lake Okeechobee. They were neighbours of the Ais and Jaega, with whom they appear to have shared a language. Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, who spent years among Indigenous peoples of Florida, mentioned the Guacata in his sixteenth-century account. Spanish soldiers later moved into their vicinity after conflict with the Ais; the newcomers called their post Santa Lucía.