Jaco: History

The Official name of Jaco is Garabito at the pre-Columbian time, the territory that at the moment corresponds to the corner of Garabito, was part of the dominions of the cacique Coyoche or Coyochi, in the valley of equal name, which was inhabited by natives of the call Reino Huetar of the West; at beginnings of the conquest the main cacique was Garavito.

The discoverer of the region was Don Gil González Davila, in the year of 1522, when he made the first route by land of our national territory, from the Southeastern sector of he himself to the indigenous town of Avancari (today Abangaritos, corner of Puntarenas).

In law numer 20 of the 18 of October of 1915, on territorial division for administrative effects the small villages the Needles, Tárcoles, Pigres, the Blankets and Horseshoe comprised of the district first of the corner of Puntarenas. In executive decree Not 15, referring to the Administrative Territorial Division of the Republic, of the 25 of February of 1965 Jacó it constituted a small village of the district first Puntarenas; he himself year, by means of law Not 3549 of the 16 of September, Jacó became the district ninth of the corner of Puntarenas, whose head paid attention to the Jacó district. In the second administration of Don Jose Figueres Ferrer, the 26 of May of 1972, in executive decree Numer 2347-G, on Administrative Territorial Division, granted the title to him from Villa to the district of Jacó. In the government of Don Daniel Oduber Quirós the executive decree was emitted Number 4358-G of the 6 of December of 1974, that established the Council of District of Jacó.