a year and a half, from the very end of 1527 through to July 1529. His chronicle includes an account of the discovery of Nicaragua by Gil González Dávila. Chronicler Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas described the first voyage of Gil González Dávila and Andrés Niño in Chapter 5 of Book IV of his Historia General de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceáno (General History of the deeds of the Castilians in the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea). Francisco Hernández de Córdoba's foundation of the colonial towns of León and Granada was described in a letter to the king of Spain, written by Pedrarias Dávila in 1525. Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas included an account of the discovery of Nicaragua by Juan de Castañeda and Hernán Ponce de León in his Historia de las Indias (History of the Indies). Juan de Castañeda wrote his own account of his voyage of discovery, now contained in the national archives of Costa Rica; it was written in 1522. See also Spanish conquest of El Salvador Footnotes Citations References Barahona, Marvin (1991) Evolución histórica de la identidad nacional (in Spanish). Tegucialpa, Honduras: Editorial Guaymuras. . . Calvo Poyato, José (September 1988). "Francisco Hernández de Córdoba y la conquista de Nicaragua." Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. 459: 7–16, Madrid, Spain: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana. Cardoza Sánchez, Uriel Ramón (June 2017). "Evolución Urbana y Arquitectónica de la Ciudad de Matagalpa". Revista Arquitectura + Vol. 2, No. 3: 54–61. Managua, Nicaragua: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería de Nicaragua. . Accessed on 2017-11-21. Chamberlain, Robert Stoner (1966) [1953]. The Conquest and Colonization of Honduras: 1502–1550. New York: Octagon Books. . Churchill, Ward (1999). Genocide of native populations in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Basin in Israel W. Charny (ed.) Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barabara, California: ABC-CLIO. . . Coe, Michael D.; with Rex Koontz (2002). Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs (5th ed.). London and New York: Thames & Hudson. . . Deagan, Kathleen (June 1988). "The Archaeology of the Spanish Contact Period in the Caribbean". Journal of World Prehistory Vol. 2, No. 2: 187–233. Springer. Deagan, Kathleen (2003). "Colonial Origins and Colonial Transformations in Spanish America". Historical Archaeology Vol. 37, No. 4: pp. 3–13 . Society for Historical Archaeology. . . Feldman, Lawrence H. (2000). Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. Durham,