cauchibachoa

Updated: May 25, 2025

All this coast is a part of Paria, that land so rich in pearls which Columbus himself discovered, as we have related; he being the real author of these discoveries. The coast reconnoitred by the Pinzons continues past the Boca de la Sierpe, already described, and the districts of Cumana, Manacapana, Curiana, Cauchieta, and Cauchibachoa, and it is thought that it extends to the continent of India.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera