6-688: The Eastern Huetar Kingdom , also known as Lordship of el Guarco , is one of the two great kingdoms in which the domain of the Huetar ethnic group was divided in the Central Valley of Costa Rica and at the time of the conquest the king was Correque , son of the feared chieftain El Guarco. Although smaller than the fellow Huetar nation, the Western Huetar Kingdom ruled by Garabito as part of its larger empire . The eastern Huetar territory extended from
12-733: Is preserved in the eastern sector of the Central Valley of Costa Rica , where the city of Cartago is located, in the El Guarco canton in the Cartago Province . Apparently his domains extended from the banks of the Virilla River to the Chirripó region in Tierra Adentro . It is possible that El Guarco was not a personal name, but the designation of its royal office, and that it meant "The Sentinel of Co". Some sources mention El Guarco as monarch of
18-596: The banks of the Virilla River to the slopes of the Chirripó in the Tierradentro . The area of the modern Paraiso Canton was governed by the vassal chiefs Abituri and Turichiqui, in addition there were aboriginal settlements in Ujarrás and Orosi that were visited by the Spaniard Ignacio Cota in 1561. In the illegal distribution carried out by Perafán de Ribera in 1569, two geographical areas were described in which
24-466: The eastern orchard tribes were grouped; Big Turriarva and Small Turriarva. The first included the current towns of Aquiares, Colorado, Santa Cruz, with their main chiefs Tabaco and Hurrea; and the second constituted the present towns of Margot, Azul, Jesús María, Alto Varal, Cimarrones and Lajas. El Guarco El Guarco was a Costa Rican Indigenous king , at the time of the Spanish conquest . Its name
30-504: The inventory of the towns that in 1569 the Governor Pero Afán de Ribera y Gómez illegally commissioned, there is also a king named Guarco, as monarch of a community called Purapura, which according to he had fifty people, although some historians assume that it was fifty families. Purapura, along with another community called Pucuca, was entrusted to an individual named Juan Alonso. Given the meager number of people that apparently had
36-428: The so-called eastern huetares. He was succeeded as king by his son or close relative Correque , who was baptized with the name of Fernando Correque and was entrusted to Tucurrique. In 1584, in a document signed by Governor Diego de Artieda Chirino y Uclés, mention is made of "... Don Fernando, Rrey and natural Lord of all this land, son of Guarco, Lord who was also della and his legitimate successor and heir ... ". In
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