Nicarao

Nicarao is the name of an Indian chief in Central America, who lived at the time of the Spanish Conquistadors in what is now Nicaragua. He is said to have had a daughter named Xochiltnahual, the Nicaraguan writer Carlos Alberto ampie Loria " The Legend of the fish princess " in his book " Nicaraguan legends and folk tales, " reports in its history. According to opinions of some historians, however Nicarao was just a legend.

One theory is that Nicarao is the namesake for Nicaragua, according to another theory, the name derives from the Nahuatl ( nican = "here", aráhuac = " people ").

Nicarao was the leader of Nicarao, an ethnic group that was located in present-day Lake Nicaragua Rivas. 1522/23 this area was conquered by Spanish troops. The native population was decimated by war and introduced diseases, as well as enslavement and deportation to Panama and Peru.

In Nicaragua, there were many different ethnic groups that come from different indigenous peoples. Many of them spoke Nahuatl ( depending on the dialect also nahual, Nahuat, Nawat or Nahua ). Nahuatl was the language of the Aztecs, the culturally more advanced peoples also used this language.