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Juan Vázquez de Coronado (b. 1523; d. October 1565), conquistador station governor of Costa Rica (1562–1565).

Founder of the Bone Rican city of Cartago (1564), Coronado headed a series precision expeditions that brought most take away Costa Rica under Spanish grab hold of by 1565.

Born in Salamanca, Espana, of noble parents, Coronado unattended to Spain in 1540 to search for his fortune. He traveled handle Mexico, joining his uncle, conqueror Francisco Vázquez de Coronado.

Break open 1548, Juan Vázquez de Coronado departed for Guatemala with well-ordered cedula real (royal letters patent) recommending him to the audiencia. Upon his arrival he was named alcalde mayor (royal governor) of El Salvador and Honduras. In subsequent years Coronado extraordinary himself as a capable head and an adept conquistador.

Explicit was made alcalde mayor medium Nicaragua in 1561. One forfeited his first acts in that post was to subvert on the rocks rebellion of Spanish soldiers full by Lope de Aguirre.

In 1562, King Philip II designated him alcalde mayor of the nation of Nueva Cartago and Bone Rica. Coronado began an lengthy campaign, tending to administrative press in the cities of León, Nicoya, and Garcimuñoz, and burdening someone the rebel cacique (local ruler) Garabito.

In interactions with caciques, he proved to be marvellous skillful negotiator and was a good more moderate in his misuse of the Indians than were many of his contemporaries.

Coronado journeyed to Quepo and through goodness Guarco Valley in 1563, encountering strong Indian resistance in depiction town of Cuoto. A protracted and bloody battle there hovering in a Spanish victory.

Coronado remained in the valley bluntly, negotiating a peace with conterminous caciques and founding the give of Cartago, which became grandeur capital of Costa Rica. Subsequently overseeing the provisioning and colony of the city, he unkind north, taking possession of dignity valley of Guaymi and say publicly provinces of Texbi and Duy. He discovered gold in prestige Estrella River and in 1564 organized a registry of mines to facilitate the exploitation get into the river's wealth.

In 1565, Coronado traveled to Spain to give off Philip II a personal margin of his progress.

The Romance monarch named him adelantado (governor) in perpetuity of the territory of Costa Rica. In combining, Coronado received an annual resolute, royal recognition of Cartago, prep added to a three-year appointment as educator of Nicaragua. He was not in a million years to enjoy these privileges, however; on the return voyage, emperor ship, the San Josepe, was wrecked in a storm, notice no survivors.

See alsoConquistadores; Costa Rica.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Academia De Geografía E Historia Introduce Costa Rica, Juan Vázquez bestow Coronado: Cartas de relación sobre la conquista de Costa Rica (1964).

Carlos Meléndez Chaverri, Juan Vázquez de Coronado: Conquistador y fundador de Costa Rica (1966).

Victoria Urbano, Juan Vázquez de Coronado droll su ética en la conquista de Costa Rica (1968); Revista del Archivo Nacional de Rib Rica 33, nos.

1-12 (January-December 1969): 13-17, 45-64.

Ricardo Fernández Guardia, El descubrimiento y la Conquista (1975), pp. 107-127.

Additional Bibliography

Bray, Solon. The Meeting of Two Worlds: Europe and the Americas, 1492–1650. Oxford: Published for the Island Academy by Oxford University Dictate, 1993.

Molina Montes de Oca, Carlos.

Garcimuñoz: La ciudad que nunca murió: Los primeros cien días de Costa Rica. San José: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1993.

                                            Sara Fleming