Los trasfondos económicos de un cambio jurisdiccional en Centroamérica. El caso del Partido de Nicoya

No jurisdictional change in the configuration of the states that formed the Federal Republic of Central America (1824-1838) stands out as much as the segregation of the Nicoya Party in the southern Nicaraguan district in order to attach it to Costa Rica, which was limited at the time to the Central Plateau area. This article goes beyond the nationalist accounts characteristic of the official discourse to explore how changes in economic conditions and political dynamics at different levels (local, state, federal) explain the jurisdictional change and its permanence.