9-604: The empire, domain or lordship of King Garabito was a vast territory controlled by Huetar King Garabito and that extended through most of the Central Valley of Costa Rica from the Virilla River (natural border with the also Huetar but smaller Señorío del Guarco ) in modern San José to the Atlantic Slope in what is now the north of the country ( Alajuela , Grecia and San Carlos mainly). Garabito's domain transcended
18-404: A document of 1569, the domains of Garabito extended inland and included the places called Coyoche Valley, Pereira, Barva, Yuruste, Coboboci, Abacara and Chucasque; The chiefs or lord vassals of Garabito were called Cobobia, Abaçara, Barba and Yuruste. Other sources add three communities that were tributaries of Garabito, such as those of the botos, located in the plains of San Carlos , the tises and
27-567: A tribal war between the two. Garabito presented a fierce resistance to the Spanish conquering expansions , considerably delaying the process of conquest and colonization and causing many headaches to the Spanish governors such as Juan de Cavallón and Vázquez de Coronado , but he would finally be defeated and his domain annexed to the governorship of Costa Rica under the name that the Spanish designated as Garabito province. King Garabito Garabito
36-578: Is more likely that his predecessor was a maternal uncle. At the time when he began to rule over the huetares, shortly after the arrival in Costa Rica of the mayor of Nuevo Cartago and Costa Rica Juan de Cavallón y Arboleda (1561-1562), his domains were located in the western region of the Central Valley, Costa Rica , extending towards the Pacific in the basin of the Jesús María and Gamalotal rivers. According to
45-599: The borders of the Western Huetar Kingdom where it had multiple vassal populations such as Coyoche, Abacara, Chucasque, Cobobici (possibly Corobicí), Cobux, Yurustí and Barva, and also included several submissive peoples but not incorporated into their kingdom; the Botos, Tises and Catapas. Although the exact location of its capital is unknown, it is speculated that it could be in San Ramón near where it made war raids against
54-562: The botos. The empire was also an enemy of the also vast Kingdom of Nicoya , of ethnic chorotega unrelated to the huétares but with the Oto-Mangueans instead and that represented other of the largest pre-Hispanic Costa Rican empires. Another enemy of the empire was the Nicarao people who encroached and settled on part of its territory and displaced the Huetares that inhabited Bagaces , sparking
63-537: The catapas , located in the current cantons of Grecia and Alajuela . Its main settlement would have been in the Valle de la Cruz, in the current canton of San Mateo , on the banks of the Surubres River. In some publications of the 20th century, King Garabito is confused with Coyoche, another indigenous monarch who, despite being his contemporary, belonged to another ethnic group, of Mesoamerican culture. King Garabito
72-506: Was an indigenous king of the Huetar ethnic group , who approximately between 1561 and 1574 was a monarch of the Western Huetar Kingdom and its surroundings , in the current territory of Costa Rica . A 1566 document indicates that in 1561 he succeeded his grandfather, although given that in the indigenous kingdoms of the Intermediate Area of Costa Rica, matrilineal succession prevailed, it
81-463: Was the most important leader of the indigenous resistance against Mayor Juan de Cavallón y Arboleda (1560-1562), and he also did not submit to the authority of Juan Vázquez de Coronado (1562-1565), his successor. Garabito is perhaps, along with Pablo Presbere, the best known of the indigenous kings of Costa Rica, mainly because he was the one who most resisted the conquest of the country by the Spaniards in
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