Guarungube

Guarungube was an Indigenous town among the islands at the southern end of Florida. Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, who lived for years among the peoples of the peninsula after a shipwreck, named it in his sixteenth-century account of the coast. He placed Guarungube and Cuchiyaga among the towns of the islands the Spanish called the Martyrs. The waters and channels of the Keys connected these communities with the mainland and the neighbouring peoples of southern Florida.