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Guamá (died c. 1532) was a Taíno rebel chief who led a rebellion against Spanish rule in Cuba in the 1530s.
After the death of Spanish governor Diego de Velázquez there were a series of indigenous risings. By 1530 Guamá had about fifty warriors and continued to recruit more pacified yndios, the rebellion mainly occurred in the extensive forests of the area of Çagua, near Baracoa in the easternmost area of Cuba, but it also occurred further south and west in the Sierra Maestra.
Guamá was betrayed and murdered by his brother Oliguama circa 1532. According to oral tradition Oliguama, also spelled Holguoma (External Link

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The death of Guamá and the capture and execution of his warrior wife Casiguaya, plus the killing or dispersal of most of the group by a cuadrilla, a war party of Spanish, Indians and Blacks under the orders of Spanish governor Manuel de Rojas, ended major resistance to the Spanish by 1533. Brizuela of Baitiquirí (Zayas, 1914) fought on until about 1540, when he was captured and imprisoned (External Link

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There also was another cacique named Guama who fought the Spanish in Haiti.

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