Desde la colonización hasta hoy.
The territory of present-day Ecuador was home to various Indigenous cultures for millennia before being incorporated into the Inca Empire in the late 15th century. Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 1530s, and Quito became an important administrative center within the Viceroyalty of Peru and later the Viceroyalty of New Granada, with Spanish colonization drastically reshaping […]
The island of Hispaniola, shared today by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, was originally inhabited by the Taíno people prior to European contact. Christopher Columbus landed there in 1492, and Santo Domingo, founded in 1496, became the first permanent European settlement in the Americas. Spanish colonization rapidly devastated the Indigenous population through disease and forced […]
Dominica was originally inhabited by the Kalinago (Carib) people, who called the island Wai’tu kubuli and maintained one of the last strongholds of Indigenous resistance in the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus sighted the island in 1493, but its rugged terrain and fierce Kalinago resistance delayed European colonization for over two centuries. France and Britain both contested […]
Before European contact, Cuba was inhabited by Indigenous Taíno and Ciboney peoples, who lived in agricultural and fishing communities across the island. Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba in 1492, and Spain established the island as a colony in the early 16th century, founding Havana and other settlements that grew into key ports for Spanish trade […]
Prior to Spanish arrival, the territory now known as Costa Rica was home to smaller indigenous groups compared to neighboring regions, including the Chorotega and Boruca peoples, situated at a crossroads between Mesoamerican and South American cultural spheres. Spanish colonization began in the 1560s, though the region’s lack of easily exploitable mineral wealth and small […]
