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Extract from the San Vicente Travel Guides:
SAN VICENTE
was founded in 1635 by fifty local Spanish families in accordance with the 1600 Law of the Indies, which prohibited the Spanish from living among the indigenous people. Gathering under the shade of a tempisque tree near Ro Alcahuapa on December 26, 1635, the families formally inaugurated San Vicente de Lorenzana, in honour of the Spanish martyr San Vicente Abad.
Until the 1980s, the biggest threat to the stability of San Vicente came on February 16, 1833, when the forces of Anastasio Aquino, leader of the Nonualco indigenous uprising, arrived in the city. "Inebriated with alcohol and success", they removed...
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