guazzaciaras

Updated: May 20, 2025

Guazzaciara means a battle; so they engaged in four guazzaciaras, in which the Spaniards, aided by their allies of Chiapes and Tumaco, who were that chieftain's enemies, were victorious. Their attack was in the nature of a surprise. The cacique wished to assemble a larger army, but was dissuaded by his neighbours along the coast from continuing the struggle.

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