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The island of Quisqueya, cradle of the Taíno world: here ruled Anacaona, the poet-cacica of Xaragua whose love and resistance alongside Caonabo became the Caribbean's first great love story.

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The island of Quisqueya, cradle of the Taíno world: here ruled Anacaona, the poet-cacica of Xaragua whose love and resistance alongside Caonabo became the Caribbean's first great love story.

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Hispaniola (Quisqueya) · 1492–1503

Anacaona & Caonabo

The poet-cacica and the last Taíno warrior

The cacica of Xaragua, famed for her areítos and her beauty, and the chief of Maguana who led the first Taíno rebellion against the Spanish: two sovereigns of Quisqueya joined in love and resistance, both destroyed by the conquest.

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What are the great Dominican love stories?

Some of the greatest are Anacaona & Caonabo.

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