The TaĆno were Arawakan-speaking Indigenous people who inhabited areas such as Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands at the time of Christopher Columbusās exploration. Once the most numerous Indigenous people of the Caribbean, the TaĆno may have numbered one to three million at the time of the Spanish conquest in the late 15th century.
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