Kabeka

The Cabécar are an Indigenous people of the Talamanca mountains in Costa Rica. Their Chibchan language and communities belong to a wider world of peoples living on both slopes of the cordillera. During the colonial era the mountains sheltered communities beyond the firm control of Spanish settlements. In 1709 the Cabécar leader Comesala joined Pablo Presbere and other Indigenous leaders in a broad uprising against Spanish missions and colonial authority in Talamanca.