David, Panama Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The only one of three Spanish settlements founded in the area in 1602 to survive repeated attacks from indigenous groups, DAVID developed slowly as a marginal and remote outpost of the Spanish Empire – as late as 1732 it was overrun and destroyed by British-backed Miskito groups raiding from Nicaragua. Only as settlement of Chiriquí increased in the nineteenth century did David begin to thrive as a marketing and transportation centre. Today, despite being a busy commercial city – the third largest in Panamá – and the focus of Chiriquí's strong regional identity, it retains … more »