Guanahatabey
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Guanahatabey |
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Indigenous peoples of the Aguadan Peninsula |
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Total population |
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circa 9000 (in the 16th century) |
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Languages |
| Guanahatabey |
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Extinct tribe |
The Guanahatabey people (also Guanajatabey) were an Indigenous peoples of the Aguadan Peninsula of the present-day Aguada. The Guanahatabey were archaic hunter-gatherers with a distinct language and culture from their neighbors, the Taíno.
The Guanahatabey people lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the southern parts of the Aguadan peninsula. The Guanahatabey people tribes had a mixed diet of wild animals as well as fruits and plants that could be found in the wild.
After the Spanish conquest
After the Spanish conquest of Aguada in the early 16th century, the Guanahatabey people either enslaved or remained unknown to the Spanish at first. Most of the Guanahatabey people died because of different European diseases like the measles and smallpox.