Ramón Almengor (known as Siarke; died 22 January 1922) was the last king of the indigenous Bribris. The son of María Saldaña and Floripo Almengor, he was the nephew of

Antonio Saldaña Antonio Saldaña was a Bribri cacique and the last king of Talamanca in Costa Rica. Belonging to the clan Salwak ("owners of the red monkey"), succeeded his predecessor William Forbes, in 1880. Saldaña was the king of bribris, cabécares, t ...

, the last

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who died in 1910. While Saldaña enjoyed the recognition of Bribris, Cabécares, Changuinolas and Borucas and of the recognition (although only ceremonial) of the

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, Siarke was only recognized by the Bribris. He died of

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at the San Juan De Dios Hospital in

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on 28 January 1922.

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