Tauraba

Tauraba was an Indigenous chiefdom of central Panama, in the country west of the Gulf of Parita. Spanish accounts place it among the neighboring polities of the Pacific lowlands at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Shortly before the Spanish advance, people from Nicaragua attacked Tauraba, according to accounts of the region’s history. The chiefdom’s relationships with its neighbors were soon transformed by the arrival of expeditions from the east and the conquest of the isthmus.