Guanimar

Guanimar is an early name associated with the bay of Matanzas on Cuba's northern coast. Its sheltered waters meet the mouths of rivers descending from the interior. Bartolomé de las Casas recorded an encounter here before the Spanish conquest, when Indigenous people attacked survivors of a Spanish shipwreck as they were being taken across a river by canoe. The event became associated with the later name Matanzas, meaning “slaughters.”