Chippewa Falls
a town and a county-seat of Chippewa co., Wis.; on the Chippewa river, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and other railroads; 12 miles N. E. of Eau Claire. It is the seat of the County Insane Asylum and the State Home for the Feeble- Minded, and has important manufactures, large water power from the river, electric lights, and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, two National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,893; (1920) 9,130.
CHIRIQUI (che-re-ke'), an administrative division of the Republic of Panama, adjoining Costa Rica; area, about 6,500 square miles; pop. about 43,000. It is well wooded, and has rich pasturage, especially on the Atlantic coast. The Cordilleras that occupy the interior reach their highest point in the volcano of Chiriqui (11,265 feet). Chief town, David. On the N. coast is a spacious lagoon of the same name, with a depth of water for the largest ships, which receives the unimportant Rio Chiriqui. CHIROMANCY. See PALMISTRY.