Arrival From The Colonizadores To Cuba
In the Century XV Cuba it was lived by Guanajatabayes Indians, Ciboneys and Taínos; these were pacific and had an organization who was known like primitive community. The 27 of October 1492 Cristóbal Columbus discovers the Island of Cuba in its first trip of discovery by the route of the new world. Sebastián de Ocampo makes the first bojeo around the Island in 1509 and calls Careenings to the site that at the moment occupies the port of Havana. In the 1510 above conquering expedition of Diego Vela'zquez. The Indians directed by quisqueyano Cacique Hatuey resist to the Spaniards but they are defeated and captured to use them as cheap manual labor. The colonos saw the great possibilities of wealth of the continent and the island went away depopulating gradually.
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