Before long he met a beautiful young Chorotega princess named Nochari. Curimeo recalled with pleasure that in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, nochtli meant prickly pear, and that tlalli meant land of. Thus, in Nahuatl, Nochari meant Land of the Prickly Pear.

He would call her Nosara, a name used by the Tarascos. In turn, Chief Nambí would shorten his name to Curime, which meant the man with the big mustache in Nahuatl. Nochari and Curime soon fell very deeply in love, but life in the land of the prickly pear wasn't without hardship. The Chorotegas had mortal enemies nearby- the Chiras.