Boaco

Boaco on the map of Nicaragua

Boaco is capital of the department of the Central American state Boaco Nicaragua.

Topography

The city is surrounded by mountains and has an upper and a lower town, which is why it is also called the city of two floors.

History

In Sumo boa or Boaj means magician and the suffix "o " stands for City, Town. On the run from Pedro Arias Dávila came at the beginning of the colonial period Boacs and other Nahuatl by Boaco.

Boaco Viejo

Boaco Viejo was about five leagues ( 20 km ) east of the present Boaco. From the original population so far no remains were found. In a letter dated March 30, 1529 by the Alcalde Mayor (Governor ) of Nicaragua from Leon ( Nicaragua), Lic Francisco de Castañeda to Charles V and in letters of the Corregidor of Sébaco and Chontales of 1725 the term was used Boaco. In these letters, it was reported on the banks of the Río Murra from the first Boaco. Matias de Oropesa describes 1727 Boaco than two or three leagues from the Río Murra away. Beginning in 1529, reached Andrés de Garabito, with a 50 -man prospectors expedition, San Andrés. Garabito the first Spaniard was in Boaco. The Boajs be described as a river nomads of the Río Murra, a tributary of the Río Grande de Matagalpa. On a tributary of the Río Murra They founded 1680-1682 Boaco Viejo. The residents of Boaco Viejo attacked residents of the surrounding mountains, during one of these raids, they took 1749 captured about 100 Indigenous and brought them to Granada ( Nicaragua). On 22 December 1749 Boaco Viejo was attacked by Chimarones destroyed and almost all the inhabitants, including the priest, Pbro. Antonio de Cáceres killed.

Boaquito

The survivors settled in 1750 on the Río Malacatoya and founded Boaquito, with sixty houses a Cabildo de Españoles a Cabildo de Indos and a prosecutor. On the evening of April 2, 1752, the Bishop of the Diocese of Nicaragua Lic Fray Pedro Agustín Morel de Santa Cruz visited on a journey through his diocese Boaquito. He noted that the city of Santiago has a patron saint, live 140 families with 5 people per family there, 712 times confession and communion are granted; the community befände a league of Teustepe away on a productive level, but stones, swamp and spiders were made ​​work difficult. This, especially in the fertile rainy season, swampy terrain, the barren stony ground and the outbreak of cholera meant that the city was resettled in their position today, this made ​​Boaco by its mountain location to a natural fortress against ideas.

Títulos Reales de las tierras de Boaco

The population fled from malaria and dryness of places where the spiders ruled that shift lasted from 1751 to 1770. Presented in November 1764 the directors of the Cabildo de Españoles and the Cabildo de Indios of Santiago de Boaco the Corregidor and Capitán Aguerra of Sébaco and Chontales Justo Buenaventura Morales, a detailed memorandum on the sufferings and privations which had suffered the citizens of Boaco ago. In this representation being made to the combustion of Títulos Reales de las tierras de Boaco respect which kept the Spanish encomendero, Jerónimo Vásquez. These included the land titles and the corresponding taxes of Mr. Pedro de Abaunsia, listeners of the Real Audiencia de Guatemala. This sent the public scribes Bernabé Renffel after Teustepe. Thus, the evidence would be received by the authorities of Boaco. A commission was established on November 5, 1764. On this day the first statements which have been expressed by numerous witnesses were accepted. The introduction of the Commission took place on November 5 of 1764th On the same day she received you first statements by several witnesses. As a replacement for the notary José Benito Santillan and Eusebio Somoza. Fully Says had that day: Juan José Calero, Antonio Alvarado, Alférez Adriano Jarquín, Victorio Miranda, Sargento Antonio Torrealba y Villagra, Lucas Mendoza and Manuel de Luna. The evidence was the Fiscal de Tierras de su Majestad en Guatemala presented what they recognized at the January 14, 1765. The re-issue of land titles for Santiago de Boaco was carried out at the Vistite of Domingo López de Urrelo, Caballero de la Orden de Calatrava, Oidor, Alcalde de Corte and subdelegado Principal Real del Derecho de Tierras on January 23 in 1766. Carlos III. issued on February 1, 1775, the new title, which was in the town hall of Boaco since then.

1778 visited Bishop Lorenzo de Tristán the place Boaco and ordered the construction of a church, which was consecrated in 1811. Bishop Tristan had ordered the Cathedral of Leon and some churches in Costa Rica. The precious wood for the church brought oxen from the forests of Teustepe. During his visit to Boaco Bishop Lorenzo de Tristán, Carlos Matias Ignacio José Antonio Yarrince made ​​a catechist. 1845 had Boaco a church, Escuela Urbana, a plaza, an address book to mandatory reporting, a military authority, rural schools in Sacal and San Buenaventura.

Boaco had a large growth, the oldest and most important city of Chontales time was Teustepe ( land of rabbits). The capital of Chontales was Acoyapa ( bend of the river ) Juigalpa is a secondary place and Teustepe is populated by peace-seeking travelers who travel to the north of Nicaragua, to the center of Chontales and to the Atlantic coast. This period is remembered a way of Teustepe after Sébaco.

1776 were the administrative districts of Nicaragua according to the reform of Carlos III. redistributed. The area of present-day Nicaragua was divided into five counties: Leon, Matagalpa, El Realejo, Sutiaba and Nicoya. Boaco belonged to Nicoya.

Men in Boaco went into the service of the wealthy, and covered with their wives and children on their goods. This made it difficult for collecting of royal tribute annually by 16 Reales. The royal tribute collectors Patricio de la Cerda in 1801 demanded a premium on the toll and pushed many residents of Boaco for change of residence in the mountains. 1805 at an audience of the public ministry and the prosecutor Dr. Ibáñez an arrangement to the subdelegado Cerda was given to refrain from such practices in the future, so that the population would return to their homes again. From 1821 Boaco belonged to the Department of Chontales.

On February 4, 1910 the government of José Madriz enacted a law which the Department Jerez separated out of Chontales with Boaco as the capital of what remained without consequences. On July 18, 1935 the government of Juan Bautista Sacasa passed a law which established the Departemento de Boaco.

Museums

  • Museo Municipal
  • Museo Antropológico Arturo Javier Suárez Miranda
  • Museo del privado Dr. Armando Incer Barquero

Churches

For the upper town, the Santiago de los Caballeros is the parish church, which was built in the mid 19th century. In her there is the Parque Central, which is named after the priest José Paulino Nieborowski. In 1944 the Colegio Nieborowski was established, which led the priest Paulino Antonio Tobar Velasco, and was succeeded by José Paulino Nieborowski. In the lower town is the Iglesia del Socorro which was built in the Russian Orthodox style in the 1980s.

Economy

In the city of cheese, saddles and leather boots are made.

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