1492-00-00: (Jaragua, One of Five Taíno Chiefdoms on Hispaniola at the Time of Columbus’s Arrival, Located in the Southwestern Sector With Its Capital at Yag…

1492-00-00: (Jaragua, One of Five Taíno Chiefdoms on Hispaniola at the Time of Columbus’s Arrival, Located in the Southwestern Sector With Its Capital at Yaguana, Present-Day Léogâne, the Epicenter of the 2010 Earthquake, Whose Last Independent Cacique Anacaona Was Executed by the Spanish): Jaragua was one of the five Taíno chiefdoms that governed Hispaniola before the European arrival. It occupied the southwestern sector of the island, with its capital at the town of Yaguana, known today as Léogâne, the epicenter of the devastating 2010 earthquake. The chiefdom’s last independent leader was Anacaona, the poet-cacique who was publicly hanged by the Spanish in 1504 for suspected resistance. The geography of Jaragua thus holds multiple layers of Haitian history in a single place: indigenous political organization, colonial violence, and twenty-first-century catastrophe, all mapped onto the same ground.