Veraguas Culture

Biography:

The Chiriqui culture, also known as the Veraguas culture, was a pre-Columbian Panamanian culture. It is noted for the quality of its goldwork, using the lost wax method and depletion gilding. The culture produced painted tripod bowls, anthropomorphic figures, and basalt sculptures. The society is not well known, but it is known that the elite were buried with gold and tumbaga pendants, and deities were represented in goldwork as anthropomorphized animals such as jaguars. The culture was located in the westernmost Province of Chiriquí, Panama, and the southern Costa Rica, from approximately Quepos Point to the border with Colombia.