Point Mosquitos ( es, Punta Mosquitos, links=no or ''Mosquito'') is a point (geography), point on the Caribbean coast of Panama in Central America.
[United States Hydrographic Office, Hydrographic Office 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 Amerind peoples, Indians under the cacique Carlos (cacique), Carlos encountered by Vasco Núñez de Balboa[Bancroft, Hubert H]
''History of Central America. 1501–1530'',
A.L. Bancroft & Co. (San Francisco), 1882. and the origin of the English word ''savanna''.
References
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Headlands of Panama