While attempting to reach the Indies, Columbus admiral on 12th
September 1502 discovered the Nicaragua Caribbean Coast,
rounding the cape Gracias a Dios (current name) . Spain began
the conquest of the Atlantc Coast in 512. In the same year king
Ferdinado II sent a governor to take possession of those lands
and to submit the native residents of this coast. This project
failed because the native fought very hard and after a cruel war
they succeded into repeling him with his assaliant army. Spain
began a new invasion in 1522, this time from Guatemala and
Honduras, but a year later this new attempt failed again and the
soldiers were repelled. For this reason the natives were named
“Indios bravo” (wild native). In 1600, after the failure of the
project to subdue the resident population with the army, Spain
sent the monks. But many of these died meeting the wild tribes.
To sum up, Spain did not conquier the Carribean lands nor his
inhabitants, although Tordesillas treaty established that the
Atlantic Nicarguan Coa