Macaca

Macaca was an Indigenous district of eastern Cuba, south of Bayamo and near the coast of the Gulf of Guacanayabo. Its name survives in accounts of the island before the Spanish conquest. Early histories place an initial Spanish settlement called San Salvador in this country, near Niquero and Cape Cruz, before the town was moved inland toward the Bayamo River. The region thus witnessed some of the first stages of colonial settlement in Cuba.