PANAMA

PANAMA / PANAMÁ.

Airmail definitive stamps.
Map of Panama.
Stamp issued on 04.08.1949.
Face value: 5 cents of Panamanian balboa.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 29 x 25 mm,

Catalogs
- Michel No. 300.
- Scott No. C112.
- StampWorld No. 377.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 232.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 105.

In 1501, Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to reach the Isthmus of Panama. In 1502, on his fourth voyage, Columbus reached the Atlantic coast of the isthmus. In 1510, Vasco Núñez de Balboa founded Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first city in current Panamanian territory, called the Kingdom of Tierra Firme, and three years later he undertook the conquest of the interior of the isthmus: on September 23, 1513 he discovered the coast of the Pacific Ocean, which he called Mar del Sur (South Sea), which he took possession of in the name of the Crown of Castile. In 1751 Tierra Firme came under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. On November 28, 1821, Panama proclaimed its independence from the Crown of Spain and joined Gran Colombia. After several unsuccessful attempts, on November 3, 1903, it separated from Colombia and the independence of the Republic of Panama was proclaimed.