Costa Rica, Graphical Testimonies of its Colonial Stage

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he Atlantic portion of the Costa Rica Coastal territory was discovered by Christopher Columbus on his fourth and last voyage. In the search of the channel, that to his belief should communicate the Antilles Sea with that of the Oriental Indies, he travelled along its coasts from October 1502 until April 1503. In his search for the lands of Veragua, now named Costa Rica Christopher Columbus died (1506) without achieving his aims that were achieved by his inheritors after thirty years of litigations with the crown that gave the same territory 25 square leagues named the Ducado de Veragua .

The folder contains:

• Drawings of the Province of Nicaragua (1716)
• Rio Mantina (1738-1755)
• Province of Telemanca (1781)
• Explanatory text by "Purificación Medina Encina".

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