Gil de Alvarado and Benavides

Indian official, born in Santiago de Guatemala (now Antigua Guatemala around 1605 and died in Barva, Costa Rica, on September 17, 1670. He was the son of Sergeant Major Jorge de Alvarado and Villafaña, Governor of Honduras, and Juana de He was the founder of the family of Alvarado in Costa Rica, where he settled in 1628. He married between 1633 and 1636 with Juana de Vera and Sotomayor (1610-1684), daughter of Sergeant Major Garcia Ramiro Corajo and Juana de Vera and Sotomayor.

In the militia reached the degree of ensign. He was Corregidor of Pacaca in 1629, Corregidor of Turrialba in 1632 and 1638, Second mayor of Carthage in 1639, Corregidor of Chirripó in 1646 and Corregidor of Aserrí in 1651. Later it settled down in the valley of Barva, where it had a house and lands to late 1665, when he was already blind.

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