Jororo

Jororo names a community and a wider group of Indigenous settlements in the upper Kissimmee watershed of central Florida. These were loosely connected communities whose subsistence did not depend on agriculture. Lakeside and island settlements supported fishing, hunting and gathering roots, nuts and fruits. The Spanish counted Jororo, Atissimi and Atoyquime among the larger communities of the region.

Franciscan missionaries established San Joseph de Jororo and La Concepción de Atoyquime around 1692. Their presence brought a brief and contested extension of Spanish religious authority into the lake country. By 1697 a royal mission list showed no resident friar at Jororo after a revolt in which a religious, a Spaniard and Indigenous people died, and it described Tissimi and Atuiquimi as in revolt. The mission frontier stayed unstable, and local communities continued to decide whether outsiders could remain among them.