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The Ciboney were pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all archaeology of the Americas in the history of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the Americas continents....
 indigenous inhabitants of the Greater Antilles
Greater Antilles

File:LocationGreaterAntilles.pngThe Greater Antilles is one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico--the four largest islands of the Antilles--the Greater Antilles constitutes almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies....
 in the Caribbean Sea
Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean situated in the mid-latitudes of the Western Hemisphere, bounded to the south and west by the Americas, with the North Atlantic Ocean proper to the northeast and the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest....
. Allegedly they also lived on some of the Lesser Antilles
Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles, also known as the Caribbees, are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Greater Antilles form the West Indies....
. It has been proposed that they spoke an Arawakan language and that they originated from the Guajira Department of Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 , but the fact is that their linguistic affiliations and their origins are unknown.

Different phylogenetic analysis seem to suggest that the Caribbean most likely was populated from South America, although the data is still inconclusive, and Central American influences cannot be discarded.

At the time of Columbus'
Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....
 arrival in 1492, there were twenty-nine principal Cacique
Cacique

Cacique or Cazique from the ta?no word for the pre-Columbian tribal Tribal chief, of the Taino tribes in the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles....
 (chieftain) territories on Cuba , the largest Ciboney population being found in the chieftain of Habana.






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The Ciboney were pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all archaeology of the Americas in the history of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the Americas continents....
 indigenous inhabitants of the Greater Antilles
Greater Antilles

File:LocationGreaterAntilles.pngThe Greater Antilles is one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico--the four largest islands of the Antilles--the Greater Antilles constitutes almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies....
 in the Caribbean Sea
Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean situated in the mid-latitudes of the Western Hemisphere, bounded to the south and west by the Americas, with the North Atlantic Ocean proper to the northeast and the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest....
. Allegedly they also lived on some of the Lesser Antilles
Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles, also known as the Caribbees, are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Greater Antilles form the West Indies....
. It has been proposed that they spoke an Arawakan language and that they originated from the Guajira Department of Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 , but the fact is that their linguistic affiliations and their origins are unknown.

Different phylogenetic analysis seem to suggest that the Caribbean most likely was populated from South America, although the data is still inconclusive, and Central American influences cannot be discarded.

At the time of Columbus'
Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....
 arrival in 1492, there were twenty-nine principal Cacique
Cacique

Cacique or Cazique from the ta?no word for the pre-Columbian tribal Tribal chief, of the Taino tribes in the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles....
 (chieftain) territories on Cuba , the largest Ciboney population being found in the chieftain of Habana. The Ciboney were historical neighbors of the Guanajatabey
Guanajatabey

The Guanajatabey were Indigenous peoples of the Americas inhabitants of Cuba, They numbered about 100,000 and had lived on the island since at least 1000 B.C....
s and Taino
Taíno

The Ta?nos were Indigenous peoples of the Americas of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is believed that the seafaring Ta?nos were relatives of the Arawakan people of South America....
s. When the Europeans arrived, the Ciboney had already been driven by their powerful Taino (Arawak
Arawak

The term Arawak , was used to designate some of the peoples encountered by the Spain in the West Indies in 1492 and thereafter. These include the Ta?no, who occupied the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas and Bimini Florida, the Nepoya and Suppoyo of Trinidad and the Igneri, who were supposed to have preceded the Caribs in the Lesser Anti...
) neighbours to Western Hispaniola
Hispaniola

Hispaniola is the second-largest and most populous island of the Antilles, lying between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east....
 (Haiti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
) and Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
. As a matter of fact, the name Ciboney is Arawakan for cave dweller. The Ciboney of both Cuba and Hispaniola were culturally very different from each other. Within a century after European contact, the Ciboney were extinct. Nevertheless, allegedly there are 253 families of Ciboney ancestry in Florida still today .