What type of indian were in Puerto Rico for the 1700!!??

Answer 1

Tainos.... and from time to time the Caribe would come and pillage and plunder the Island. Of course there were Los Indios the Mayagues--two centuries later.

Answer 2

When Colombus discovered the island there were Taino Indians.

But I believe by 1700 they were already exterminated.

The Taíno are pre-Colombian indigenous Amerindian inhabitants of the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles islands, which include Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. The Taíno came to the Caribbean islands by way of Guyana and Venezuela into Trinidad going North and west into the entire Antilles approximately 1000 BC, following the migration of the Ciboney. The seafaring Taíno are relatives of the Arawakan peoples of South America. Their language is a member of the Maipurean linguistic family, which ranges from South America across the Caribbean, and is thought to have been part of the larger, hypothetical group of Arawakan languages that would have spread over an even wider area. The Taíno of the Bahamas were known as the Lucayan (the Bahamas being known then as the Lucays).

Some scholars distinguish between the Neo-Taíno nations of Cuba, the Lucaya of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and to a lesser extent of Haiti and Quisqueya (approximately the Dominican Republic) and the true high Taíno of Boriquen (Puerto Rico). They consider this distiction important because the Neo-Taíno had far more diverse cultural input and a greater societal and ethnic heterogeneity than the original Taíno.

At the time of Columbus's arrival in 1492, there were five Taíno "kingdoms" or territories on Hispaniola, each led by a principal Cacique (chieftain), to whom tribute was paid. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the largest Taíno population centers may have contained around 3,000 people or more. The Taíno were historical neighbors and enemies of the Carib, another group with origins in South America who lived principally in the Lesser Antilles. The relationship between the two groups has been the subject of much study.

The Taíno society was arguably destroyed in the 18th century, decimated by introduced diseases, and forced assimilation into the plantation economy that Spain imposed in its Caribbean colonies, with its subsequent importation of African slave workers. It is argued that there were substantial mestizage as well as several Indian pueblos that survived into the 19th Century in Cuba. The Spaniards who first arrived in the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola in 1492, and later in Puerto Rico, did not bring women. They took Taíno wives in civil marriages, and had mestizo children.[1]

Answer 3

Tainos - Thier main chief was Areciebo- thus the pueblo "Areciebo" Very short Indian people- The were also found in parts of Cuba. Later the genocide by the Spaniards- wiped them out!! If you go to the center of the country you can still see remnants of thier culture- And yes there are also some short people there- Lares PR is one pueblo to check out..

Answer 4

Tainos