Pacaca

Pacaca was a Huetar polity in the western part of Costa Rica’s Central Valley. Its principal settlement lay near Tabarcia, south of the Virilla River. At the time of the Spanish arrival in the 1560s, Pacaca was independent of the neighboring western Huetar ruler Garabito. Its own ruler, Coquiva, submitted relatively early to the Spaniards. The small kingdom was one of several Indigenous powers whose lands and communities were transformed by the conquest.

The later city of San José lies here.