Guaicaipuro

Cacique Guaicaipuro
(Guacaipuro)
A statue of Guaicaipuro
Bornc. 1530
Northern Venezuela Province (present day Los Teques, Venezuela)
Died1568 (aged 37-38)
Paracotos, Venezuela Province, Spanish Empire

Cacique Guaicaipuro was a legendary native (indigenous) Venezuelan chief of both the Teques and Caracas tribes.[1] Though known today as Guaicaipuro, in documents of the time his name was written Guacaipuro.[2]

  1. ^ Bonet, Natalia García (May 2019). "The Indian Within: Negotiating Indigenous Identity among Dominant Images of Indigeneity in Venezuela". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 38. doi:10.1111/blar.12946.
  2. ^ Maria Electa Torres Perdomo (2007). "ABORIGENES: OLVIDADOS DE LA HISTORIA DE VENEZUELA" (PDF) (in Spanish). p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2022. Retrieved August 30, 2022.