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Some animals that they hunt to eat still exist today.

From the development of the Meso-Americana cultures, the northwest side of the country fell little by little under the influence.

The towns of the Intermediate Area included almost all the Costa Rican territory, Eastern half of Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia and the Ecuadorian Pacific, they all worked like a bridge between the Meso-Americans cultures and the Andean Area.

Through them the technological interchange between both zones became possible; but it had a consequence among other things, the development of the metallurgy in Mexico and in Central America.

Colonial period
In 1502, the navigator Christopher Columbus, in his fourth and last travel to the New World, anchors in the city of Limon, specifically in Uvita Island.

The beginnings of the establishments began in 1522. During this period, in Century XVI, the natives of the country were conquered by the Spanish. Costa Rica turn in the southern province of the Spanish territory, now called the New Spain.

The capital of the province was located in Cartago.

In 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Coast. Later the lake of Nicaragua was discovered by Gil Gonzalez Davila, towards the years 1560. This territory continued being explored by Juan de Cavallan and Juan Vazquez de Coronado.

During the next three hundred years, Spain administers this ree were they found gold degion as part of the General Captain Post of Guatemala, under a military governor.

With optimism, the Spaniards had called Costa Rica an important zonposits and other valued minerals in this territory.

 Although thinking these lands were not as richer as they to thought, compared with other provinces, they dedicate themselves especially to the agriculture.