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Gil González Dávila: Ujarrás Cartago Province

Gil González Dávila, a conquistador, arrived in Costa Rica in 1522, interacting with natives and acquiring gold through various means. During the colonial era, Costa Rica was part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, functioning autonomously within the Spanish Empire. Its geographical isolation and legal restrictions hindered trade and resource acquisition, contributing to its underdevelopment compared to other regions.

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Gil González Dávila: Ujarrás Cartago Province

Gil González Dávila, a conquistador, arrived in Costa Rica in 1522, interacting with natives and acquiring gold through various means. During the colonial era, Costa Rica was part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, functioning autonomously within the Spanish Empire. Its geographical isolation and legal restrictions hindered trade and resource acquisition, contributing to its underdevelopment compared to other regions.

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conquistador 

Gil González Dávila, who landed on the west coast in 1522, encountered natives,
and obtained some of their gold, sometimes by violent theft and sometimes as gifts from local
leaders.[24]

The Ujarrás historical site in the Orosí Valley, Cartago province. The church was built between 1686 and
1693.
During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy
General of Guatemala, nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. In practice, the captaincy
general was a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire. Costa Rica's distance from
the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law
from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New
Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica i

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