Timbu

The Timbú inhabited the Paraná river country and its islands when Spanish expeditions entered the region in the sixteenth century. Their communities were among those recorded around Sancti Spíritus, the fort founded by Sebastián Caboto in 1527 near the upper delta. Rivers connected the delta with exchange routes leading west along the Carcarañá and north through the Paraná basin. Spanish settlement brought conflict into this established Indigenous river world.