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western Nicaragua was inhabited by several different indigenous peoples related by culture to the Mesoamerican civilizations of the [[Toltec]] and [[Maya peoples|Maya]], and by language to the [[Mesoamerican Linguistic Area]].<ref name=LOC1>{{cite news|title=Nicaragua: Precolonial Period|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+ni0013)|work=Library of Congress Country Studies|accessdate=2007-06-29}}, interpretation of statement: "the native peoples were linguistically and culturally similar to the [[Aztec]] and the [[Maya peoples|Maya]]"</ref> The Chorotegas were [[Mangue language]] ethnic groups who had arrived in Nicaragua from what is now the Mexican state of [[Chiapas]] sometime around 800 CE.<ref name="Choque" /><ref name="Newson" />{{rp|26–33}} The [[Pipil people|Pipil-Nicarao]] people were a branch of [[Nahuas]] who spoke the [[Pipil language|Nahuat]] dialect, and like the Chorotegas, they too had come from Chiapas to Nicaragua in approximately 1200 CE.<ref name="Campbell1985">{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Lyle|title=The Pipil Language of El Salvador|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5bmUh7jproC&pg=PA10|date=January 1, 1985|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-088199-8|pages=10–12}}</ref> Prior to that, the Pipil-Nicaraos had been associated with the [[Toltec]] civilization.<ref name="Newson" />{{rp|26–33}}<ref name="Campbell1985" /><ref>{{cite journal|last=Fowler Jr|first=WR|year=1985|title=Ethnohistoric Sources on the Pipil Nicarao: A Critical Analysis|journal=Ethnohistory|volume=32|issue=1|pages=37–62|place=Columbus, Ohio|oclc=62217753|doi=10.2307/482092|jstor=482092}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Brinton|first1=Daniel G.|title=Were the Toltecs an Historic Nationality?|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society|date=1887|volume=24|issue=126|pages=229–230|jstor=983071}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=von Humboldt, Alexander|author2=Poynter, J. Ryan |author3=Altamirano Rayo, Giorleny D |author4=Kraft, Tobias |title=Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7Pt35axXEkC&pg=PA92|date=January 25, 2013|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-86509-6|page=92}}</ref> Both the Chorotegas and the Pipil-Nicaraos were originally from Mexico's [[Cholula (Mesoamerican site)|Cholula]] valley,<ref name="Campbell1985" /> and had gradually migrated southward.<ref name="Newson" />{{rp|26–33}} Additionally, there were trade-related colonies in Nicaragua that had been set up by the Aztecs starting in the 14th century.<ref name="Newson" />{{rp|26–33}}

 

{{Further|Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish conquest of Nicaragua}}

[[File:06.Plaza de la Independencia de Granada.JPG|thumb|The Colonial [[Granada, Nicaragua|City of Granada]] near [[Lake Nicaragua]] is one of the most visited sites in [[Central America]].]]