Comogre

Comogre was an Indigenous chiefdom in eastern Panama, neighboring the territory of Careta. Vasco Núñez de Balboa visited its ruler during the first Spanish incursions across the isthmus. Spanish accounts tell how the chief’s son Panquiaco spoke to the visitors of a great sea beyond the mountains, helping to direct their attention toward the Pacific. Balboa passed through the region again during his journey in 1513, when he reached the sea the Spaniards called the South Sea.