Legend of Diego Salcedo

The other version has Salcedo being offered a ride across a river by Taínos who carried him on their arms, and then drowned him and kept him for days, afraid he'd still be alive and waiting until they were certain he was dead.

After suffering under the Spaniards for so long, the Tainos, by order of Agüeybaná, ambushed Salcedo as he was drinking water at the edge of a river.

The settlement of Caparra, the seat of the island government at that time, was sacked and burned by an alliance between Taínos and natives from the northeastern Antilles.

[9][10] A local legend tells of a ghostly Taino woman, supposedly Salcedo's lover, that still haunts the site of his drowning at Añasco.

This belief is exemplified by a verse in the town's anthem:[11] History tells that here Salcedo was drowned, and that in the fall a female Taino is seen at night.Salcedo is referenced in a song of Puerto Rican rock band Fiel a la Vega.