Point Mosquitos ( es, Punta Mosquitos, links=no or ''Mosquito'') is a

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on the Caribbean coast of

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 ...

in Central America.

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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.

History

Point Mosquitos is sometimes connected with Comagre, the capital of the Indians under the

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Carlos encountered by

Vasco Núñez de Balboa Vasco Núñez de Balboa (; c. 1475around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an ...

Bancroft, Hubert H
''History of Central America. 1501–1530'',
A.L. Bancroft & Co. (San Francisco), 1882. and the origin of the English word ''

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''.

References

{{panama-geo-stub Headlands of Panama