Thread: Name origin

This is a province of Panama and it got its name from General Thomas Herrera. Apparently, this man is the founder of Chitré on October 19, 1848. He was also a governor at that time.

I have never heard of General Thomas Herrera? Was he Spanish? Was he a conquistador?

can anyone tell more about Thomas Herrera?
about how he found this place, or something else.
I would very like to know more about it

Even I didn't hear about him. So, i google down but didn't get any specific result. If anybody there, who like to throw some light on the topic...

there are no specific info from google.
any idea about Thomas Herrera?

I encountered the same issue when looking this guy up. Apparently there's not much info on him online.

I imagine there's bound to be a book or two about him though. Perhaps we'll have to use the library this time instead of our beloved Internet heh..

Thomas Herera. That name seem like familiar but still hard to found on search engine. I hope somebody here could help us to find that person info.

Chitré was founded by General José Tomás de Herrera y Pérez-Dávila on October 19, 1848, who was the governor of Azuero at the time. In 1860, Azuero was merged in to Herrera. Chitré, however, was included in the province of Los Santos. It was not until 1915 under the administration of Dr. Belisario Porras that Chitré became a part of Herrera and was made the province's capital.