Guaygata

Guaygata was a region of Indigenous Jamaica named in accounts of Columbus’s fourth voyage. It included the village of Aguacadiba, where a cacique and local inhabitants agreed to provide food to the stranded Spanish crews. Cassava bread, game and fish were exchanged for small goods. The episode reveals a network of villages and leaders in Jamaica before Spanish colonization began, rooted in both cultivation and the resources of the sea.