What the records say
- When
- 1493 – 1550
- Kind
- Genocide
- Deaths
- 8,000
- Coordinates
- 15.00° N, 73.00° W
- Description
- 1493–1550 genocide
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Taíno genocide
Mass murder by the Spanish during their colonization of the Caribbean
The Taíno genocide was committed against the Taíno Indigenous people by the Spanish during their colonization of the Caribbean during the 16th century. The population of the Taíno before the arrival of the Spanish Empire on the island of Quisqueya or Ayití in 1492, which Christopher Columbus named Hispaniola, is estimated to be between 10,000 and 1,000,000.
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