The two tribes interacted peacefully with each other and used one another to trade such things like food ,Animals and other types of materials to survive.Their daily lives consisted of the men fishing and the women picking fruits and vegetables.
There isn't any physical evidence of there ever being a great civilization in panama we know that the two tribes were civilized enough to know how to use each other for their own benefit.Both tribes were in control of the land they shared it and interacted peacefully with each other.Nobody was ever really in control of panama the Cuevas and the Coclé tribes both shared panama until the spanish came and took it from them.
Panama has been imperialised 3 times but if we talk about the very first country that colonized them that would be spain.According to historyworld.net spain first set eyes on panama in 1510 and then balboa set off on a journey in 1513 which brought him to the pacific.His discovery of this sea expanded spains ambitions to conquer the whole pasific coast. After that Panama immediately became an important part of the already large but growing Spanish