. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . f several thetwo oceans may be viewed. The soil, watered by innumerable rivers andstreams flowing in opposite directions, some to-ward the Atlantic and some toward the Pacific,is extraordinarily fertile. A few of these riversare navigable, but only in their lower courses. The climate is essentially maritime, though notuniform throughout the country. The Atlanticcoast region is humid and rainy during the entireyear. In the region of the Pacific two very dif-ferent seasons prevail, the dry and the dry corresponds more or less with
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . f several thetwo oceans may be viewed. The soil, watered by innumerable rivers andstreams flowing in opposite directions, some to-ward the Atlantic and some toward the Pacific,is extraordinarily fertile. A few of these riversare navigable, but only in their lower courses. The climate is essentially maritime, though notuniform throughout the country. The Atlanticcoast region is humid and rainy during the entireyear. In the region of the Pacific two very dif-ferent seasons prevail, the dry and the dry corresponds more or less with theautumn and winter of the boreal zone, the rainywith its spring and summer. The lowlands,particularly along the coasts, are hot. In thehighlands, however, the temperature is alwayscool, even cold in the highest altitudes. Con-sidered in its entirety, the climate of Costa Ricais one of the most benign in the tropical zone. Notwithstanding the fact that because of hergeographical position Costa Rica belongs toNorth America, her ethnography, fauna and. Anciknt (í Oknament of (íosta Iíican MiiHCMiiii of (^)stu Uiiu. (IMioto. (ióiiuz.) CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 3 flora are South American in character. Thefauna and flora are equally exuberant.^ When Costa Rica was discovered by theSpanish in the beginning of the sixteenth cen-tury, her territory was inhabited by several thou-sand semi-barbarous Indians, distributed amongthe great forests by which it was covered. TheseIndians belonged to five distinct races calledCorobici, Boruca (or Brunca), Chorotega,Nahua and Carib. There is reason to believethat the Corobicis were the most ancient; theBorucas probably migrated from the interior ofColombia about the year one thousand of theChristian era; the Chorotegas from Chiapas to-wards the fourteenth century; the Nahuas fromMexico fifty years later, and the Caribs fromVenezuela in about the year 1400. Concerning the Corobicis, whom Peralta^ callsthe mysterious nation
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