Kingdom of Pacaca

After passing through the domains of a king named Cob (which historian Ricardo Fernández Guardia locates in the Tusubres and Carlos Molina Montes de Oca between the Naranjo and Savegre rivers) the expedition continued twelve leagues (sixty-six kilometers) through the coast, with southeast-northwest direction, and then marched into the territory for a distance of eight leagues (forty-four kilometers), until reaching the Western Huetar Kingdom.

Cereceda succinctly stated that "Chief Huetara is 20 leagues ahead, 12 along the coast and 8 inland: 28 souls were baptized: he gave 433 pesos, 4 tomines."

In his work Garabito, nuestra raíz perdida (1981), dedicated to the figure of a great king Huetar, Oscar Bákit raised the possibility that the monarch visited by González Dávila had belonged to the Mesoamerican culture groups, which at the beginning of the 16th century were located in various places in the Costa Rican Pacific, such as Chomes, Gurutina and Chorotega.

However, Carlos Molina Montes de Oca, in Garcimuñoz, la ciudad que nunca murió,[2] identifies the town of Huetar with the indigenous kingdom of Pacaca, which was in the interior, near the current Tabarcia, precisely in a region consistent with the distances consigned by Cereceda, and that belonged to the great cultural space called today as Intermediate Area.

The belonging of the town of Huetar to the Intermediate Area and not to the Mesoamerican cultural space seems to be confirmed by the fact that with respect to the next kingdom visited by the expeditionaries on the coast, that of Chorotega, Cereceda stated that "... it is Caribbean (man-eating) ), and from now on they are ... ".