Language
"Santa Lucia de Acuera" was one of nine or ten dialects of the Timucua language named by the Franciscan missionary Francisco Pareja in the early 17th century. Pareja regarded the Santa Lucia de Acuera and Tucururu (which have may have adjoined Acuera) dialects as the most divergent from what he considered the standard dialect, that of Mocama.
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