What is "chiriqui"

Usage examples of "chiriqui".

Five minutes later, east of Chiriqui Viejo, they saw a sandy beach with a brace of straw huts, the sort local fishermen use when they wish to overnight.

Indeed, nothing had fallen to the aliens except Chiriqui and the western corner of Veraguas.

It had now again been cleared for the two thousand odd tents that housed the people Digna had brought out with her from Chiriqui, along with several thousand refugees from farther south who had come in by sea.

The children were those of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and of those who had joined her in the trek from Chiriqui and been mustered into her service.

Crossing over the bridge spanning the Rio Chiriqui southwest of the town, Digna had expected to find a defense prepared.

This was long enough, if just barely, to send the noncombatants on foot thirty kilometers up the road northward in the direction of Chiriqui Grande on the Caribbean coast.

I know there are about ten or fifteen thousand more civilians heading this way, refugees from the debacle in Chiriqui Province.

Posleen to the west, those coming out of Chiriqui to try to help free their brethren trapped to the east, sidled up with a low hum.

Province of Chiriqui and take command of the light artillery detachment of the local militia.

I have no real duties anymore until I go back to Chiriqui in about a week to begin to form my militia.

And for that, we need to get them out into the open in an artillery kill zone, trap them there, kill them there, then race to liberate Chiriqui and that tip of Costa Rica and plug the road in from the rest of Costa Rica.

Columbus called Ciamba the region which the inhabitants called Quiriquetana, a name which it would seem still survives in Chiriqui Lagoon just east of Almirante Bay.

None of the villagers possessed a motor vehicle, but a few, mostly pickup trucks, wandered through Chiriqui almost every day.