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Answer for the clue "The basic unit of money in Panama ", 6 letters:
balboa

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Enciso was in a quandary what to do, but Balboa had been on that coast before, on his first voyage out from Spain, and knew of an Indian village on the Darien River where they might find food and shelter.

The result was that a party rose against him, with Balboa at its head.

Enciso had complained to King Ferdinand of the way in which he had been treated, and the king had not only refused to support Balboa with a royal warrant for his actions, but had condemned his course and ordered him to return to Spain.

But Balboa was one of the most daring and intrepid of them all, and to win the favor of his sovereign there was no danger he was not ready to face.

Up the steep pass they toiled, until near the lofty summit, when Balboa bade them halt and went on alone, that he might be the first to gaze on the wonderful spectacle.

South Sea, as Balboa named it, the Pacific Ocean, as Magellan soon after called it.

The form of these they drew on the sand, their long necks convincing Balboa that they were camels, and that the land indicated must be Asia.

If Columbus had discovered a new land, Balboa had matched it with the discovery of a new ocean, added to which was the story of a land of gold, for whose conquest Balboa asked for a reinforcement of a thousand men.

A PAGAN IDOL, Balboa Stabilo sat on a purple and gold cushion in the middle of the splintered kitchen floor.

Her immersion in proportions triggered a deep-seated geometrical passion, which found its apotheosis when she met Balboa, so perfectly composed of spheres.

Nowadays, she lived with Balboa in a derelict house, and devoted her time to art and scoring, for her addicted beloved, the occasional six-pack of Diet Mecca.

Their talons stretched and retracted, grasping the cookie fortunes that Balboa fed to them.

Cars hissed past on the wet pavement of Balboa Boulevard, but there were empty parking places along the curbs, and the only people on the sidewalks seemed to be locals heading for the bakery, lured by the smell of hot coffee on the chilly breeze.

Crane and Mavranos stood braced on the gray-painted tar paper deck as the engine gunned and the boat surged gently out onto the face of the water, and they watched the palm trees and boat masts and low buildings of Balboa Island draw closer.

Ozzie in Balboa and then just dropped everything and drove straight to Vegas!