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Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
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Nicoya, a town on the Nicoya Peninsula of the Guanacaste province, Costa Rica, is one of the united states' most crucial traveller zones; it serves as a transport hub to Guanacaste's seashores and countrywide parks. According to the 2000 census, the city's populace turned into 13,334; 2nd in the province handiest to Liberia.

The town is the district seat of a cantón of the equal name, which is 2013 had 24,946 citizens. When conquistador Gil Gonzalez Dávila entered Nicoya in 1523, it was the largest cacicazgo at the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Though it is frequently surmised that the city and peninsula of Nicoya derive their call from a cacique Nicole who welcomed Davila and his men, certainly Nicoya took its name from the Nahuatl appellation Necoc launch, actually "on both sides, it is water, as Nicoya is in truth situated between two predominant rivers. The Peninsula de Nicoya is itself named for the city, Nicoya being the most critical city in that place. The treasurer on Dávila's expedition, Andrés de Cereceda, suggested a populace of 6,063 inhabitants underneath Nicoya's leadership, nearly five and a half of instances larger than the next largest agreement visited by the Spanish alongside the Pacific coast inside the early 1520s.

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