Tequemapo

Tequemapo was one of the towns of southern Florida named by Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, a Spaniard who lived for years among the region's Native peoples after a shipwreck. He listed it with coastal settlements under the authority of Carlos, the Calusa chief. The Calusa homeland encompassed the estuaries and shores of the southwest, where fishing sustained a society whose chiefs maintained far-reaching political and trading networks.