Esparza

Esparza is the second canton inside the province of Puntarenas in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 216.Eighty km², and has a populace of 34,291. Its capital town is likewise referred to as Esparza. Esparza become first stated as a canton in a decree dated December 7, 1848. The territory of the canton of Esparza became first inhabited by using the Chorotega and Huetar cultures. The first belonged to the province of Orotina certainly one of five Chorotega provinces, dominated by means of King Gurutiña. The Huetar belonged to the western Huetar country, ruled at the time of the Spanish conquest by way of King Garabito, or Coyoche, one of the key leaders of the Costa Rican indigenous resistance. In 1522, Don Gil González

Dávila turned into the first Spanish traveler to the region, journeying from Burica to the indigenous village of Avancari now Abangaritos , inside the canton of Puntarenas. In 1561, Don Juan de Cavallón y Arboleda, turned into commissioned by way of the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala to conquer the province of Nuevo Cartago and Costa Rica. He based the city of Los Reyes, with the port of Landecho in Tivives Cove, in the Canton of Esparza.