Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his men were the first Europeans to travel through the thick jungles in Panama from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast.

• 西班牙探险家达伽马努涅斯的巴尔博亚港和他的手下是第一批欧洲人穿越丛林厚在巴拿马的大西洋海岸到太平洋海岸。