thumb|Cabo Samaná: where Columbus encountered the Ciguayos
thumb|Cabo Samaná: where Columbus encountered the Ciguayos
The Ciguayos ( ) were a group of Indigenous people who inhabited the Samaná Peninsula and its adjoining regions in the present-day Dominican Republic. The Ciguayos appear to have predated the agricultural Taíno who inhabited much of the island. Ciguayo language was spoken on the northeastern coast of the Maguá chiefdom from Nagua southward to at least the Yuna River, and throughout all of the Samaná Province.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).