King Buppan Peak is a prominent conical hill rising to approximately 2,487 feet (758 m), about 4 miles south from the coast or of King Buppan Bluff. Its southern flank descends in a gentle 2.5-mile slope before ascending abruptly to the summit, which forms a distinctive deep hollow notch against the much higher ridge immediately behind it—part of the loftiest section of the cordillera, reaching 7,140 feet (2,176 m) at roughly 15 miles inland from the coast. The name derives from the Miskito people, with buppan (from bappan, the preterite of bapaia, “to anchor, to plant, to stand upright”) yielding the meaning “where the king anchored,” a reference to the tradition that the Miskito Kings frequently visited the site.
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King Buppan Peak in the context of Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast, also known as Mosquitia, is a historical and geo-cultural region in Central America, traditionally described as extending from Caxinas Point to the Chagres River and covering approximately 76,000 square miles (196,840 km²)[1].
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The area was historically associated with the Kingdom of Mosquitia, an Indigenous polity that exercised varying degrees of autonomy from the 17th to the 19th centuries. In the late 19th century, the kingdom was succeeded by the Mosquito Reservation, a territory established through international agreements aimed at preserving a degree of local governance. During the 19th century, the question of the kingdom's borders was a serious issue of international diplomacy between Britain, the United States, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Conflicting claims regarding both the kingdom's extent and arguable nonexistence were pursued in diplomatic exchanges. The British and Miskito definition applied to the whole eastern seaboard of Central America from Caxinas Point to the King Buppan Peak.