Parita is a town and

corregimiento ''Corregimiento'' (; ca, Corregiment, ) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites. A ''corregimiento'' was usually headed by a '' corr ...

in Parita District,

Herrera Province Herrera () is a province in Panama. Named after General Tomás Herrera, the province was founded on January 18, 1915 from a division of the Los Santos province. The capital city of Herrera is Chitré, which is located near the province's coast ...

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...

with a population of 3,723 as of 2010. It is the seat of Parita District. It was founded in 1556.''Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer'' p. 1432 Its population as of 1990 was 3,257; its population as of 2000 was 3,616.

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The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Parita Corregimientos of Herrera Province Populated places in Herrera Province Populated places established in 1556 1556 establishments in the Spanish Empire {{Herrera-geo-stub