as a passing village and survived the livestock trade mainly with the city of Rivas, Nicaragua. The bases of the annexation of the party from Nicoya to Costa Rica have deep roots in the past. Although Nicoya's ties with Nicaragua were always very close, Costa Rica was not unaware of this connection. For the annexation to occur, there were many determining factors that include geographical realities, political ties, historical situations and socio-economic contexts, where the proximity and commercial activity of Nicoya with the port of Puntarenas was a determining element. But there were also realities within the same populations that constituted the party, which influenced the decision to be made, since there were also technical, socio-economic and cultural differences between two dissimilar groups that made up the party's population: annexationists, formed by a nucleus of large cattle ranchers, descendants of Spaniards, with close ties to Nicaragua. Opposed to this traditionalist and powerful circle, the group of annexationists, made up of indigenous people, ladinos and mestizos, was numerically superior, with a great affinity to each other, with a closed economy and common deficiencies, which saw in the annexation a solution to many of those deficiencies. Political In 1813, the governor of Costa Rica, Tomás de Acosta y Hurtado de Mendoza, wrote to the president of the Audiencia of Guatemala a letter stating the scarcity of the population of Costa Rica (only 60,000 inhabitants), which prevented him from choosing a Deputy for the Cortes of Cádiz, proposing that the Nicoya party join Costa Rica to carry out this election, in which Florencio del Castillo was chosen as representative of both territories. After this election, the political ties between the representatives of Nicoya and Costa Rica became closer, as Nicoya had to send his constituents to Cartago for various votes, such as the elections for the representatives before the Provincial Delegation of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. After Central American independence in 1821, Costa Rica decided to separate from the Provincial Council, to which Nicoya remained subject until 1824. In spite of this, Nicoya continued to send his representatives to Cartago, since the independence agitation determined the need for frequent renewal of officials and the creation of government agencies, which strengthened the municipalities, such as Santa Cruz. The political-electoral bonds between Nicoya and Costa Rica were strengthened so that in 1822 the possibility of the incorporation of Nicoya to Costa Rica was already considered,