Burica

The narrow Burica Peninsula projects south into the Pacific, between the coasts of Costa Rica and Panama. Its wooded ridges and shoreline formed part of a region inhabited by Indigenous communities before Spanish arrival. In the early sixteenth century Gil González Dávila traveled through the greater Chiriquí region and encountered many villages; Spanish accounts named Burica among the territories of the southern Pacific coast. The peninsula marks the western side of the Gulf of Chiriquí.