Point Mosquitos

9°06′32″N 77°52′23″W / 9.109°N 77.873°W / 9.109; -77.873 Point Mosquitos (Spanish: Punta Mosquitos or Mosquito) is a point on the Caribbean coast of Panama in Central America.¹ It lies beside the Mosquitos Channel.¹

History

Point Mosquitos is sometimes connected with Comagre, the capital of the Indians under the cacique Carlos encountered by Vasco Núñez de Balboa² and the origin of the English word savanna.⁴

References

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, p. 112. United States Gov't Printing Office (Washington, D.C.), 1916. Accessed 1 Aug 2014.
Bancroft, Hubert H. History of Central America. 1501–1530, p. 347. A.L. Bancroft & Co. (San Francisco), 1882.
Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "savannah, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2012.
See the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary which derives it from Richard Eden's translation of Peter Martyr's collected letters but which, however, repeats the error that the word derives from Taino rather than that of the Panamanian Indians.³

[ho130-1] 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, p. 112. United States Gov't Printing Office (Washington, D.C.), 1916. Accessed 1 Aug 2014.

[2] Bancroft, Hubert H. History of Central America. 1501–1530, p. 347. A.L. Bancroft & Co. (San Francisco), 1882.

[oed-3] Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "savannah, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2012.

[4] See the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary which derives it from Richard Eden's translation of Peter Martyr's collected letters but which, however, repeats the error that the word derives from Taino rather than that of the Panamanian Indians.³

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