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PRE-COLOMBIAN PANAMA - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Eight years later, Fernández deOviedo (1853: 123): "Cueva was very populated from sea to sea and from Darien to Panama, which at present is almost deserted and uninhabited." The extinction of what the people of Pedrarias thought was an inexhaustible source of human hands to extract pearls and gold stung the consciousness of even the most soulless. "All these people who were brought, which was a large number, arrived in Darien to the mines of gold ", lamented Pascual de Andagoya," and as they came from tanluengo road worked and broken from so great loads that they brought ... dying all: in all these days (the Spanish) never tried to make adjustments of peace, nor to settle, only of bring Indians and gold to Darien, and finish there "(in Jopling, 1994: 29).