Ochomogo is a location in the province of Cartago, Costa Rica. It is in a mountain pass between the cities of San José and Cartago . It was the site of the Battle of Ochomogo (5 April 1823) between those who wanted Costa Rica to join the newly formed First Mexican Empire and those who preferred independence.
11-668: The name "Ochomogo" comes from the Chorotega language , and means "the first man". He was a companion of the god Cipactonal , one of the creators of the Aztec calendar . Ochomogo is in San Nicolás, Cartago, Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica. Ochomogo is just south of the Autopista Florencio del Castillo, which connects San José to Cartago, and is on the northeastern outskirts of Cartqago. The Köppen climate classification
22-676: A bloodbath. This resulted in the end of the Costa Rican Civil War . In the night of 9–10 December 1963 torrential rain on the Irazú Volcano caused the Reventado River to widen to over 500 metres (1,600 ft), carrying a heavy load of rocks and mud. The flood destroyed buildings, roads and cemeteries, including 400 homes, and over 15 people died. Many of the inhabitants moved up to Alto de Ochomogo. Chorotega language Mangue , also known as Chorotega ,
33-581: Is Cfb : Temperate oceanic climate. The left-lateral strike-slip Ochomogo fault is about 22 kilometres (14 mi) long, running between the south of San José and the southern slopes of the Irazú Volcano . The slip rate is no less than 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in) per year, and no more than 1.1–3.3 millimetres (0.043–0.130 in) per year. At one time there was a plaque in Ochomogo that said "Continental division of waters". This could mean that
44-462: Is an extinct Oto-Manguean language ancestral to Nicaragua , Honduras and Costa Rica . Estimates of the ethnic population vary widely, from around 10,000 in 1981, to 210,000 according to Chorotega activists. Chorotega-speaking peoples included the Mangue and Monimbo. The dialects were known as: Mangue proper in western Nicaragua, which was further subdivided into Dirian and Nagrandan; Choluteca in
55-499: The Costa Rican culture, losing their language, but pottery techniques and styles have been preserved. /t, k/ can have allophones [ts, tʃ]. Stop and fricative sounds /p, t, k, s/ can turn voiced [b, d, ɡ, z] after nasal sounds. Three vowels are noted /a, i, u/. Allophones are also noted. Brinton gives a list of Mangue words and phrases some of which are: The Verb "to be," Pronouns. Phrases. Brinton also compares
66-487: The color terms of Mangue and Chiapanec: And a number of Nicaraguan and Costa Rican placenames that come from the Mangue language: Guaitil Guaitil is a village in Diriá District , Santa Cruz Canton , Guanacaste Province , Costa Rica. It lies along the old route between Santa Cruz and Nicoya . The town is famous for its pottery in the pre-Columbian Chorotega style. Potters using local clays and
77-674: The location was at the center of America, but more plausibly meant that it was on the drainage divide between the Atlantic (Cartago) and Pacific (San José) slopes. The Ochomogo War in 1823 was won by the Republicans, and caused the capital of Costa Rica to be transferred from Cartago to San José. During the League War in 1835 there was another confrontation in Alto de Ochomogo where the people of Alajuela , Heredia and Cartago fought
88-619: The people and their language, and this has caused some (for example Terrence Kaufman 2001) to speculate that they were the original inhabitants of the city of Cholula , who were displaced with the arrival of Nahua people in central Mexico. The etymology for the nomenclature "Chorotega" in this case would come from the Nahuatl language where " Cholōltēcah " means "inhabitants of Cholula", or "people who have fled". The region of southernmost Honduras known as Choluteca , along with Choluteca City , derive their names from this Nahuatl word. Choluteca
99-768: The people of San José, who were again victorious. A railway was built through the Ochomogo Pass in the 1870s to link Cartago to San José. In 1948 the Ochomogo Pact ( Pacto Ochomogo ) resulted from a conversation in Ochomogo between José Figueres Ferrer , leader of the National Liberation Army, and Manuel Mora , leader of the Communist Party. They agreed to avoid a clash in San José between the conflicting forces, which would have led to
110-688: The region of Honduras' Bay of Fonseca ; and Orotiña in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula . The Oto-Manguean languages are spoken mainly in Mexico and it is thought that the Mangue people moved south from Mexico together with the speakers of Subtiaba and Chiapanec well before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas. The timing of this migration is estimated to be between 800 and 1350 AD. Some sources list " Choluteca " as an alternative name of
121-487: Was originally inhabited by Chorotega groups. Daniel Garrison Brinton argued that the name chorotega was a Nahuatl exonym meaning "people who fled" given after a defeat by Nahuan forces that split the Chorotega-Mangue people into two groups. He argued that the better nomenclature was Mangue, derived from the group’s endonym mankeme meaning "lords". In Guaitil , Costa Rica , the Mangue have been absorbed into
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