Guaicaipuro

Guaicaipuro
A statue of Guaicaipuro
Bornc. 1530
Northern Venezuela Province (present day Los Teques, Venezuela)
Died1568 (aged 37-38)
Paracotos, Venezuela Province, Spanish Empire

Cacique Guaicaipuro was a legendary native (indigenous) Venezuelan chief of both the Teques and Caracas tribes. Though known today as Guaicaipuro, in documents of the time his name was written Guacaipuro.

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