the canton. Geography Nicoya has an area of km² and a mean elevation of metres. The Tempisque River establishes the northeast boundary of the canton, which cuts through the midsection of the Nicoya Peninsula, touching the Gulf of Nicoya on the east before curving southward to the Pacific Ocean. Districts The canton of Nicoya is subdivided into the following districts: Nicoya Mansión San Antonio Quebrada Honda Sámara Nosara Belén de Nosarita Demographics For the 2011 census, Nicoya had a population of inhabitants. Transportation Road transportation The canton is covered by the following road routes: References Further reference ARCHIVO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA (ANCR) 1760 Complementario Colonial, Expediente 315. 1765 Complementario Colonial, Expediente 244. 1770 Complementario Colonial, Expediente 301. 1768 Complementario Colonial, Expediente 273. 1784 Guatemala, Expediente 491. 1785 Guatemala, Expediente 498. 1802 Guatemala, Expediente 792. 1816 Complementario Colonial, Expediente 3710. BASKES, JEREMY (2000). "Indians, merchants, and market: a reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian economic relations in colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821." stanford: Stanford University Press. FERNANDEZ GUARDIA, RICARDO (1938). "La sublevación de los indios de Nicoya en 1760." In Revista de los Archivos Nacionales, 2:362-366. LAWRENCE, JOHN W. (2005). "La Arqueología, la historia y la memoria: Interfaces interpretativas en la historiografía colonial de Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica." In Memorias del Coloquio Internacional 'Universos Coloniales Centroamericanos'. Universidad Rafael Landívar: Guatemala City, Guatemala. LAWRENCE, JOHN W. (2009). "Archaeology and Ethnohistory on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Excavations at the Templo Colonial in Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica." In Historical Archaeology 43(1):65-80. MELENDEZ CHAVARRIA, CARLOS (1959). "Tipos de población de Costa Rica a mediados del siglo XVI." In Actas, 33rd International Congress of Americanists. Vol. 2., pp. 485:494. San José: Imprenta Lehman. MELENDEZ CHAVARRIA, CARLOS (1978). "Nicoya y sus templos historicas." In Separatas No. 38. San José: Universidad de Costa Rica. MELENDEZ CHAVARRIA, CARLOS (1983). "Primera Etapa de la Encomienda de Indios en Nicoya 1524-1545." In America Indígena, 43(1):187-204. MORA, GUADALUPE, 1988 personal communication. NEWSON, LINDA (1987). Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. OVIEDO Y VALDEZ, GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE (1959). Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Madrid: Ediciones Atlas. PERALTA, MANUEL M. DE (1883). Costa Rica, Nicaragua y Panamá en el Siglo XVI. Madrid: Murrillo. Cantons of Guanacaste Province Populated places in Guanacaste Province