Point Mosquitos ( or ''Mosquito'') is a
point on the Caribbean coast of
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
in Central America.
Hydrographic Office
A hydrographic office is an organization which is devoted to acquiring and publishing hydrographic information.
Historically, the main tasks of hydrographic offices were the conduction of hydrographic surveys and the publication of nautical ch ...
of the United States Navy
H.O. No. 130: ''Central America and Mexico Pilot (East Coast): From Gallinas Point, Colombia to the Rio Grande'', .
United States Gov't Printing Office (Washington, D.C.), 1916. Accessed 1 Aug 2014. It lies beside the
Mosquitos Channel.
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History
Point Mosquitos is sometimes connected with Comagre, the capital of the Indians under the cacique
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (; ; feminine form: ), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European cont ...
Carlos encountered by Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (; c. 1475around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish people, Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to ...
[Bancroft, Hubert H]
''History of Central America. 1501–1530'',
A.L. Bancroft & Co. (San Francisco), 1882. and the origin of the English word ''savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach th ...
''.
References
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Headlands of Panama