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Christopher Columbus first dropped anchor in Costa Rica in 1503 at Isla Uvita. His forces overcame the indigenous people. He incorporated the territory into the Captaincy General of Guatemala as a province of New Spain in 1524. For the next 300 years, Costa Rica was a colony of Spain.
4 ημέρες πριν · Costa Rica, country of Central America. Its capital is San Jose. Of all the Central American countries, Costa Rica is generally regarded as having the most stable and most democratic government.
In 1502, Columbus stopped near present-day Limón, Costa Rica. Natives with "golden mirrors around their necks" told of "many places . . . [with] gold and mines." Subsequent chroniclers called the region "Costa Rica"—Rich Coast—although it turned out to be among the poorest of Spain's colonies.
history of Costa Rica, a survey of the important events and people in the history of Costa Rica from the time of European settlement.
6 ημέρες πριν · Although estimates indicate that about 400,000 indigenous people lived in what is now Costa Rica before the Spanish conquest, that number was drastically reduced by the conquest itself, disease, and slave-raiding expeditions.
Today, Costa Rica is strongly shaped by its Spanish influences as well as Catholicism. But some influences still remain and some tribes are still populating Costa Rica to this day. Costa Rica has been inhabited as far back as 5000 years BC by indigenous people.
Compared with most other Central American countries, Costa Rica has had a history of relatively fair and democratic exchanges of political power, with only one major internal conflict occurring in 1948.
