The Panamanian Isthmus in the sixteenth-century chronicles is a research whose goal is to analyze how is described the clash between the Europeans culture and “the others” in the social, cultural and landscape aspects. But, why go back to chronicles? Because they conceal within its pages the beginning of our literature and the new social and ethnic composition between the white men, the natives and the black men.
As a product of this encounter with something completely new, the New World, in the European imagination arose all kind of myths due to this unknown and savage geography which amazed them. Their writings talk about this unique experience.
Going back to chronicles will also contribute to the making a historiographical study of our Panamanian literature during the time of discovery and conquest. This would fill some gaps about what happened during the first centuries of Spanish rule.
In this research we will analyze and understand how the Panamanian Isthmus has always been a globalized country, quasi-new concept. Although, if we look back, since the arrival of Admiral Christopher Columbus, the Isthmus has always been a country of commercial transit of wealth from one point to another.