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| | Nicaragua, History guide |
 | | These people called themselves the Niquirano and were governed by chief Nicarao, a rich cacique (chief) from near present-day Rivas who came to be called Nicaragua by the Spanish, giving the modern country its name. |
 | | In 1522 Nicarao welcomed Gil Gonzalez de Avila, an intrepid explorer who had made his way to Nicaragua on foot and by boat from Panama and Costa Rica, becoming the first Spaniard to arrive in the area. |
 | | The inhabitants of central Nicaragua, the Chontales, Matagalpas and Populucas, were a different ethnic group, related to the Maya of Honduras, and offered far more resistance to the Spanish, though their language and peoples did not survive the Conquest. |
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