First American Conquest

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The process of conquest and destructuring of the aboriginal and cacical societies of our country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is immersed in what is known as the first and second stage of the conquest of the province of Costa Rica. The first stage begins in 1522, with the expedition of Andrés Niño and Gil González Dávila, who did not venture into the interior of the province. Niño toured the Pacific littoral from Burica to Caldera and then to Nicaragua. González Dávila, in front of a hundred men, traveled by land on the southeast coast of the country to the town of Abancari in the current canton of Puntarenas. Tambión visited Caldera and the Nicoya Peninsula, Diriá (Santa Cruz) and continued to Nicaragua. This first stage is characterized