Parita

Parita was an Indigenous chiefdom on the Pacific side of central Panama, around the gulf and river that bear its name. Spanish accounts describe a populous region with cultivated fields and a powerful ruler known as Parita or París. In the sixteenth century his people fought the Spanish expedition of Gonzalo de Badajoz, defeating it and taking its accumulated gold. Further expeditions followed, and Spanish conquest disrupted the chiefdom and its neighboring communities.