Nuevo Cartago y Costa Rica Province

The second was the Pacific coast that had constituted Castilla de Oro, namely from the Gulf of Nicoya on the west to the borders of the Duchy of Veragua.

Under a new decree on November 29, 1540, the King appointed Diego Gutiérrez y Toledo as governor and captain to explore and populate the portion of Veragua that lay outside the Duchy.

[1] He arrived in the territory in 1543 and founded the town of Santiago and the city of San Francisco.

In 1549 Juan Pérez de Cabrera was named to succeed Gutiérrez y Toledo, but the Crown revoked the nomination.

In the same year, Juan Vázquez de Coronado was named the new alcalde mayor.