Chorotega (chōrōtā`gä), aboriginal people and language group of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Little is known of the Chorotega, primarily beause of the absence of extensive ruins. Contemporaneous with the Maya to the northwest, they inhabited principally the Ulúa Ulúa (
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..... Click the link for more information. River valley and the Mosquito Coast Mosquito Coast or Mosquitia (məskē`tēə, mōskētē`ä)
..... Click the link for more information. . With other tribes to the south and the Chibcha Chibcha (chĭb`chə), indigenous people of the eastern cordillera of the Andes of Colombia.
..... Click the link for more information. of Colombia, they formed a cultural link between the peoples of the Andean area and those of Mexico. The Chorotega were probably democratic, with a chief chosen by elected council. Chorotega culture became extinct in the Spanish colonial period.
l..... Click the link for more information. River valley and the Mosquito Coast Mosquito Coast or Mosquitia (məskē`tēə, mōskētē`ä)
..... Click the link for more information. . With other tribes to the south and the Chibcha Chibcha (chĭb`chə), indigenous people of the eastern cordillera of the Andes of Colombia.
..... Click the link for more information. of Colombia, they formed a cultural link between the peoples of the Andean area and those of Mexico. The Chorotega were probably democratic, with a chief chosen by elected council. Chorotega culture became extinct in the Spanish colonial period.
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