Nicarao people

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The Nicarao are an Indigenous Nahua people living in western Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. They are the southernmost Nahua group located in southern Mesoamerica. They spoke the Nahuat language before it became endangered after the Spanish conquest of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The Nicarao are a subgroup of the Pipil people, both of which are descended from the Toltecs, who migrated from Aridoamerica over the course of several centuries starting about 700 CE, the late Mesoamerican Classic period. This branch of the Nahua people originated in Chiapas, which was inhabited by Nawat-speaking Toltecs for hundreds of years before they migrated further into Central America. Around 1200 CE, a group of Pipils that would eventually become the Nicarao migrated further south and settled in the Greater Nicoya region of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, seized most of the fertile lands in the region, and eventually separated and formed their own chiefdoms. The migration of the Nicarao has been linked...

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