Personality · Literature · Music
Composer · Poet · Traditional leader or chief
📍 Birthplace Cacique of Jaragua
1474 – 1503
Haiti
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Anacaona was a Taíno cacica, zemi interpreter, composer, and poet born in Yaguana, Jaragua, Hispaniola. After the death of her brother Bohechío in 1500, she became the ruler of Jaragua. In the centuries since her death, she has been re-imagined and memorialized in various forms of poetry, music, and literature from Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the wider Caribbean.
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- Birthplace
- Cacique of Jaragua
- Languages
- Taíno
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- Wikidata, Q456259 (CC0)
- Photo: Vida y viajes de Cristóbal Colón / por Washington Irving. Madrid: Impr. de Gaspar y Roig, 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons