His reign extended through the mountains, bordering The Rows of Mariches and the Tuy Valleys, including part of the Caracas Valley. Among his successes is that of Villa del Collado, as well as that o.. Read more »f Cayapa, where he defeats the legendary and cruel Rodríguez Carpio. In 1568 Tiuna gathered almost four thousand men, together with the caciques Guaicamacuto and Aricabuto, to give a decisive fight in Maracapana. To destroy the invader, there were the caciques Naiguatá, Uripatá, Anarigua, Mamacuri, Querequemare, Prepocunate, Araguaire, Guarauguta, with seven thousand warriors; Aricabuto and Aramaipuro represented the Mariche nation in command of three thousand archers. The great cacique Guaicaipuro did not arrive at the site because of bad weather. Some caciques withdrew, but others, motivated to fight by Tiuna decided to fight, Losada confronted them. The battle was disastrous, the caciques decided to retreat.
Some time later, Tiuna devoted himself to relentlessly harassing every conqueror. The exasperated Spaniards put a price on his head. And, according to some chronicler, a traitorous Indian attacked him with an arrow causing his death.
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