LIBERIA
Head of the Province of Guanacaste
Located north of Costa Rica and in the middle of the Guanacaste plain, with white areas of volcanic origin, surrounded by the volcanoes Orosi, Tenorio, Rincón de la Vieja and Miravalles, is the "White City": Liberia, with its whitewashed adobe houses whiteshows its particular urban architectural physiognomy Spanish colonial influence.
BRIEF HISTORY
In pre-Columbian times the area now the canton of Liberia, was part of a province of the Indians called Chorotegas whose domains ranged from the Nicoya Peninsula to Lake Nicaragua, consisting of several villages or estates.In the early seventeenth century, residents of the cities of Granada and Rivas, began to realize the importance of land located between the Gulf of Nicoya and their places of origin for livestock, so formed farms of this type of activity in the valley of the Rio Tempisque.At the site of the intersection of the roads leading to Rivas in southern Nicaragua, Bagaces in the territory bordering the province of Nicoya and Costa Rica there were some small farms , this place in 1751 was called The Guanacaste. At the crossrods of these roads, in the shade of a leafy tree Guanacaste, began to emerge a fledgling business that gave rise to the village. Strengthen it with the lapse of time.The first chapel was built in 1768 as a simple ranch to that time there were a group of 60 people. Once built there, a chapel, with simplicity and adobe, on September 4, 1769, was asked by the residents petitioned the Bishop and Captain-General to send him a priest. The parish was erected in 1790 dedicated to St. Joseph.The present church was built in 1972, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, which now is a suffragan of the Diocese of Tilarán of the Ecclesiastical Province of Costa Rica.In the second administration of our first Head of State Juan Mora Fernandez, July 23, 1831, in law No 31, was awarded the title of the people of Guanacaste Villa (now Liberia). In Act No. 105 of 27 March 1835, the village was part of the Department Guanacaste the same name, one of three that was divided, at that time, the territory of the State. On September 3, 1836, in the first government of Braulio Carrillo Colina, was enacted Law No. 172 which he gave to the town, the City category. The primitive population established under the name of the Guanacaste, in 1848 became the first canton of the province, by Act No. 3 of 30 May 1854 became the head of the Guanacaste Province with the name of Liberia.The first street lighting was carbide lamps, placed in the main streets. In 1930 he installed a power plant, owned by Don Francisco Mayorga Rivas, who sold electric power to the municipality for public lighting.In 1864 he founded a school of first letters for girls. In 1904 the government of Don Ascension Esquivel Ibarra was built school building that now bears his name. The Institute for teachers Guanacaste began operations in 1945 in the administration of Don Teodoro Picado Michalski. In Decree Law No. 369 of February 8, 1949 during the administration of the Foundation Board of the Second Republic was established Normal School in Guanacaste, which originally used the facilities of that institution. In 1972 the University of Costa Rica opened the Regional Center of Guanacaste. With the creation of the National University by Act No. 5182 of February 15, 1973, established that the Normal School of Guanacaste became part of the new higher education institution, as a Regional Section of the same University.In 1873 work began on construction of the pipe, but later suspended. In 1902, the second administration of Don Rafael Iglesias Castro opened the pipe, which collected the waters of the place called The Out of Water in the river Liberia.The first street lighting was carbide lamps, placed in the main streets. In 1930 he installed a power plant, owned by Don Francisco Mayorga Rivas, who sold electric power to the municipality for public lighting.The origin of the name of the canton dates from 1854 when the name Guanacaste was replaced by that of Liberia, to the head of the province.
