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TaĆ­no village Large stone sculpture of a Taino face carved into a rock cliff, surrounded by lush green plants in Isabela, Puerto Rico.
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TaĆ­no village
TaĆ­no village Recreation of a TaĆ­no village, Baconao Park, near Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

TaĆ­no

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Also known as: Antillean Arawak
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Teagan Wolter is Associate Editor of Anthropology at EncyclopƦdia Britannica.
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TaĆ­no, Arawakan-speaking people who at the time of Christopher Columbusā€™s exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Once the most numerous Indigenous people of the Caribbean, estimates of the TaĆ­no population at the time of the Spanish conquest in the late 15th century vary from about one million to more than three million. They had long been on the defensive against the Carib...

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