Ometepe Island, was populated by tribes that inhabited the coasts of the Great Lake of Nicaragua. These tribes were the Mangues, Chorotegas, Nicaraguas, Chibchas, Tiwanaco and others.
This people moved to Ometepe in Raft, possible during the months of April, May, June, July, September and October, these are the months of the year in that the waters of the lake are serene.
The are many vestiges that the small tribes and villages have been in the banks of the lake and in different places in the sourroundings of the volcanos. There are cemeteries and archaeological remains , in the center of Altagracia where the park is now. In 1967, the tractors of the department of highways took out beauties in archaeological pieces.

It is excellent that here many names of the aboriginal toponimia are conserved: Chilaite, Ilcue, Culco, I cover, Chipá, Guyú, Angul, Tagüizapa, Calaisa, Balgüe, Pulman, Cuacuyú, Tichaná, The Guineo, Tibiche, Sinacapa, Sintiope, Sapabucha, Urbaite, Tilgüe, Astagalpa, Moyogalpa and Esquipulas, among others.

These were the names with which they denominated to the different tribes of Ometepe.
Most of the tribes that lived in the insular costs, lived calm, hunting, fishing, the sculptors working stone, the potters forging the clay, making ceremonies to their gods and cultivating, harvesting corn, potato and other tubers and gathering fruits.

After the coming of the Spaniards, it is that the Island began to suffer the invasions of the French pirates, Englishmen and Dutch. These passed stealing them their foods, their animals, treasures and even women.
They made their entrances for theSan Juan River bound for Granada. This calvary began in the XV and XVI century.

Gallardillo, David, Dampier and drake were the names of some of them.
Drake anchored its ship, The Golden Deer", in the port of grace and Gallardillo kept in Ometepe its booties becoming piracy refuge.
This made that the aboriginal moved even higher in the mountain of the volcanos, looking for sure and safer places.

In the Consepción Volcano was where they suffered more, they arrived this way where it is the current Altagracia City. There they formed two big tribes: Astagalpa and Cosonigalpa, this last name evolved to Cocinigalpa and later to Cotziningalpa. these two towns were divided for a street - that at the moment is the one that leads to the cemetery in Altagracia. But for problems of power had wars among them, the Astagalpas evicted the Cotziningalpas until Cotuapa for the North and Sinacapa for South.

Sinacapa understood what today is from the Sand Mine until San José of the South. Astagalpa occupied the south part - what today is the part from the Priest House toward the Institute Ladislao Chwalbinsky - while Cotziningalpa occupied the North part what today is from the Priest House toward the new square of Altagracia.
This same town of Ometepe was given in it commends for the Emperardor Carlos V to Juan of Perea, April 13 1537. In that then, was the governor Rodrigo Contreras, then to Luis of the neighboring Rocha of Granada.