Point Mosquitos
{{short description|Point on the Caribbean coast of Panama in Central America}}
{{coord|9.109|-77.873|display=title}}
Point Mosquitos ({{langx|es|Punta Mosquitos|links=no}} or Mosquito) is a point on the Caribbean coast of Panama in Central America.Hydrographic Office of the United States Navy. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MIgPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112 H.O. No. 130: Central America and Mexico Pilot (East Coast): From Gallinas Point, Colombia to the Rio Grande, {{nowrap|p. 112}}.] United States Gov't Printing Office (Washington, D.C.), 1916. Accessed 1 Aug 2014. It lies beside the Mosquitos Channel.
History
Point Mosquitos is sometimes connected with Comagre, the capital of the Indians under the cacique Carlos encountered by Vasco Núñez de BalboaBancroft, Hubert H. [https://archive.org/stream/histcentralameri01bancrich#page/346/mode/2up/search/Comagre History of Central America. 1501–1530, {{nowrap|p. 347.}}] A.L. Bancroft & Co. (San Francisco), 1882. and the origin of the English word savanna.{{refn|See the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary which derives it from Richard Eden's translation of Peter Martyr's collected letters but which, however, repeats the error that the word derives from Taino rather than that of the Panamanian Indians.Oxford English Dictionary, {{nowrap|3rd ed.}} "savannah, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2012.}}