Guarionex

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{{short description|Taino cacique of Hispaniola}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Guarionex
| image = Smithsonian 1901 map of Puerto Rico caciques.png
| image_size = 300px
| caption = Smithsonian 1901 map of Puerto Rico caciques
| succession = ''[[Cacique]]'' of [[Chiefdoms of Hispaniola#Chiefdom of Maguá|Maguá]]
| reign = {{circa|[[Hispaniola#Post-Columbian|1492]]}}<ref name="Floyd">{{cite book|last1=Floyd|first1=Troy|title=The Columbus Dynasty in the Caribbean, 1492-1526|date=1973|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|location=Albuquerque|pages=30, 33–35, 39–40}}</ref> - 1502
| predecessor =
| successor =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Chiefdoms of Hispaniola#Chiefdom of Maguá|Maguá]], [[Hispaniola]]
| death_date = 1502
| death_place =
| father = [[Guacanagarix]]
}}
'''Guarionex''' ([[Taíno language]]: ''"The Brave Noble Lord"''<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.taino-tribe.org/teist-h1.htm | title=The Dictionary of the Taíno Language}}</ref>) was a [[Taíno people|Taíno]] [[cacique]] from [[Chiefdoms of Hispaniola#Chiefdom of Maguá|Maguá]] in the island of [[Hispaniola]] at the time of [[Discovery of the New World|the arrival of the Europeans to the Western Hemisphere in 1492]].<ref name="Floyd">{{cite book|last1=Floyd|first1=Troy|title=The Columbus Dynasty in the Caribbean, 1492-1526|date=1973|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|location=Albuquerque|pages=30, 33–35, 39–40}}</ref> He was the son of cacique [[Guacanagarix]], the great Taíno [[prophet]] who had the [[Vision (spirituality)|vision]] of the coming of the [[Europeans|''Guamikena'' (White Men)]].

Since 1494 the Spaniards had imposed heavy tributes on the Taino population of Hispaniola. In 1495, Taino led by [[Caonabo]] raised up in arms but were crushed by [[Bartholomew Columbus]]. Guarionex then opted for accommodation and appeasement but by 1497 the situation had deteriorated further. Guarionex then sided with Spanish rebel [[Francisco Roldán]] and set out to attack the Spaniards. Columbus assembled his troops and attacked Guarionex's camp at night by surprise. The cacique was captured and his warriors dispersed. Guarionex was later released by Columbus and went back to his policy of appeasement. At one point he could not hold on to power and fled to the north of the island. The Spaniards captured him there and sent him in chains to [[Spain]] in 1502, but the ship sank during a storm.<ref>{{cite book | title=Columbus and Las Casas: the conquest and Christianization of America, 1492-1566 | author=David M. Traboulay | year=1994 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Jmi4Wb1DdsC&pg=PA43 | accessdate=1 July 2010 | pages=42–43 | isbn=9780819196422 }}</ref><ref name=Floyd/> Lost was a fortune in gold said by [[Bartolomé de las Casas]] to be worth 3600 [[castilians]].<ref>de las Casas, Bartolomé (1992). ''A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies''. Penguin Books. p. 20.</ref>

At some point he fled to Puerto Rico and was cacique of Otoa ([[Utuado, Puerto Rico|Utuado]], Puerto Rico).<ref name="taino-tribe.org">{{cite web | title=Dictionary of the Taino Language | website=taino-tribe.org | url=http://www.taino-tribe.org/terms1.htm | language=es | access-date=6 June 2020}}</ref>

==In popular media==
Cacique Guariones is mentioned in a Puerto Rican [[décima]] in the Journal of American Folk-lore volume 31, published in 1918.<ref>{{cite web | title=Index:Journal of American Folklore vol. 31.djvu | website=Wikisource, the free online library | date=2020-12-28 | url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Journal_of_American_Folklore_vol._31.djvu | page=324| access-date=2020-12-30}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Chiefdoms of Hispaniola]]
*[[List of Puerto Ricans]]
*[[Agüeybaná (The Great Sun)|Agüeybaná]]
*[[Agüeybaná II]]
* [[List of Taínos]]
* [[Arasibo]]
* [[Hayuya]]
* [[Jumacao]]
* [[Orocobix]]
* [[Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Taíno leaders]]
[[Category:16th-century indigenous people of the Americas]]
[[Category:16th-century monarchs in North America]]
[[Category:Dominican Republic people of Taíno descent]]
[[Category:Haitian people of Taíno descent]]

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