The Federales de Chiriquí are a

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team in the

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, or Probeis. Founded in 2019, the team is based in Panama's western

Chiriquí Province Chiriquí () is a province of Panama located on the western coast; it is the second most developed province in the country, after the Panamá Province. Its capital is the city of David. It has a total area of 6,490.9 km², with a population ...

History

Federales are the latest professional team to represent

. Chiriquí-Bocas played in the Panamanian Professional Baseball League for a single season, winning the 1963 Interamerican Series in the only year of its existence. Additionally, they shared the city with Astronautas for a single season (2019–20) before that team moved to Los Santos. Federales de Chiriquí represented Panama at the

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, as runners-up of the 2019–20 Probeis season. In 2023, the team won a national championship for the first time, and thus represented Panama at the Caribbean Series for the second time in its history; at the

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, the team went 3–4 and did not make to the knockout stage. However, Federales won its third national championship in the 2023–24 season. The team went 5–1 in the group stage 2024 Caribbean Series, losing only to

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; however, they were knocked out in the semifinals by Tigres de Licey, and ended up placing third in the tournament.

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