COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 41 



Between the river Natina and the river Tarire were the provinces of Pococi and 

 of the Tariacas. To the east of the Tarire to the Bay del Almirante, dwelt the 

 Viceitas, Cabecares, and Terrabas (Terrebes, Terbis, or Tiribies). 



On the Bay del Almirante to Point Sorobeta or Terbi there was the Chichimec 

 colony, already referred to, whose cacique Iztolin conversed in the Mexican lan 

 guage with Juan Vasquez de Coronado in 1564. 



The Changuenes occupied the forests about the headwaters of the Rio Ravalo. 



The Doraces, south of the Laguna of Chiriqui, and at the foot of the Cordillera, 

 adjoined in the valley of the river Cricamola or Guayrni with the warlike nation of 

 the latter name. 



The Guaymies occupied the coast and the interior lands situated between the 

 rivers Guaymi and Conception, of Veragua. 



In front of the valley of the Guaymi lies the Island del Escodo, the governmental 

 limit of Costa Rica; so that the Guayuiis were distributed in nearly equal parts 

 between the jurisdiction of Costa Rica and of Veragua. 



In the interior, in the highlands about Cartago, on the slopes both of the Atlantic 

 and the Pacific, were the provinces Guarco, Toyopan, and Aserri; farther west, 

 toward the gulf of Nicoya, Pacaca, Garabito, and Chomes adjoined along the sum 

 mits of La Herradura and Tilaran with the Chorotegas. 



These provinces formed the territory of the Huetares, or Guetares, uei tlalli, in 

 Nahuatl, &quot; great land,&quot; a general term, which included various tribes and chieftan- 

 cies of the same linguistic stock, one entirely diverse from those of the neighboring 

 Mangues and Nahuas, toward whom they were unfriendly, although maintaining 

 commercial relations. 



The province of Guarco was considered by both the natives and the Spaniards as 

 one of the most favored localities in the country, and for that reason was selected 

 by the Guetares, and later by the whites, as the sight of their principle town. It 

 was here that the city of Costa Rica was founded in 1568. The name is a corrup 

 tion of the Nahuatl Qualcan, from &quot; qualli,&quot; good, convenient, with the locative suffix 

 &quot;can.&quot; Qualcan means, therefore, &quot;good place,&quot; or, as it is translated in Molina s 

 Vocabulary, &quot; a well-sheltered and desirable place,&quot; which answers well to the val 

 ley of Cartago. 



Southeast of Chorotega and the heights of Herradura, and south of the Guetares, 

 extending to the Pacific Ocean, between the rivers Pirris and Grande of Terraba, was 

 the province of the Quepos, of which the Spanish Government formed the district 

 of Quepo, whose extreme limit toward the southeast was the old Chiriqui River. 



According to the most probable conjectures, the Quepos belonged to the family of 

 the Guetares and lived, by preference, on the coasts. They were also enemies of the 

 Mangues and the Cotos and Borucas, and in consequence of their wars with them 

 and with the whites, and with the burden of labors laid upon them by the latter, 

 their towns disappeared in the middle of the eighteenth century without leaving 

 any positive traces which will enlighten us upon their origin. 



Adjoining the Quepos, the Cotos or Coctos occupied the upper valley of the river 

 Terraba, formerly known as the Goto. 



These formed a numerous and warlike tribe, skillful in both offense and defense. 



They are not known in Costa Rica by this name; but there is no doubt that the 

 Borucas are their descendants. These Borucas occupied the region about Golfo 

 Dulce, formerly the gulf of Osa, east of the river Terraba, and gave their nameBuri- 

 cas, Burucas, or Bruncas to the province of Borica, discovered by the Licentiate Espi- 

 nosa in the first voyage of exploration made by the Spaniards to this region in 1519, 

 and also to Point Burica, the extreme southern limit of Costa Rica, in latitude 8 

 north. 



The province of Burica extended toward the east to the Llanos of Chiriqui, and 

 formed a part of the government of Quepo. It belongs to-day to the district of 

 Punta Arenas. 



