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Bayano
Bayano, also known as Ballano or Vaino, was an African enslaved by Spaniards who led the Bayano Wars, biggest slave revolts of 16th century Panama. Captured from the Yoruba people, Yoruba community in West Africa, it has been argued that his name means ''idol''. Different tales tell of their revolt in 1552 beginning either on the ship en route, or after landing in Panama's Darién Province, Darien province along its modern-day border with Colombia. Rebel slaves, known as Cimarron people (Panama), cimarrones, set up autonomous regions known as Palenque (village), palenques, many of which successfully fended off Spanish control for centuries using guerrilla warfare, guerrilla war and alliances with pirates, or indigenous nations who were in similar circumstances. King Bayano's forces numbered between four and twelve hundred Cimarron people (Panama), Cimarrons, depending upon different sources, and set up a Palenque (village), palenque known as Ronconcholon near modern-day Chepo Riv ...
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Lago Bayano
Bayano Lake is a reservoir in the eastern part of Panamá Province, Panama created when the Bayano River was Bayano Dam, dammed in 1976. In terms of surface area, Lake Bayano is the second largest lake in Panama, exceeded only by Lake Gatun. The lake and river are named after Bayano, the leader of the largest slave revolt of 16th century Panama. The Bayano Caves are on the south side of the lake.Friar, William. ''Panama''. Moon Publications (2008), p. 419. . References

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Bayano River
Bayano River is a river of Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ... in the Panamá Province. It is an alternative name for the upper part of the Chepo River. It is named after Bayano, the leader of a slave revolt and ruler of a kingdom of former slaves in 16th century Panama. It was dammed in the 1970s, creating Lago Bayano. This dam provides much of the electrical power for Panama City. External links Fishing on the Bayano River
Rivers of Panama Gulf of Panama Panamá Province Drainage basins of the Pacific Ocean {{Panama-river-stub ...
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Bayano Wars
The Bayano Wars were armed conflicts in the Isthmus of Panama that occurred between the Bayano of Panama and the Spanish crown. The First War of the Bayano took place from 1548 to 1558, while the Second War took place from 1579 and 1582. Slavery, practiced since the early sixteenth century in Panama, brought many enslaved people from Africa to Spanish America. This brought successive slave uprising A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by enslaved people, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of enslaved people have occurred in nearly all societies that practice slavery or have practiced slavery in the past. A desire for freedo ...s against the rulers of the time, which was the origin for the Bayano Wars. References History of Panama Conflicts in 1548 Conflicts in 1579 16th-century rebellions Rebellions against the Spanish Empire Slavery in the Spanish Empire Slave rebellions in South America 1540s in South America 1550s in South America 1570s in South Am ...
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Chepo River
The Chepo River is a river of Panama in the Chepo District of Panama Province. It drains into the Pacific Ocean. Course The uppermost reaches of the Chepo is alternately called the Bayano River after the construction of the Bayano Dam that resulted in the lake reservoir. The headwaters of the Chepo encompass watercourses running south from the San Blas Mountains near the Caribbean along with other rivers draining parts of the Majé and Darien Mountains. The Mamoni River is a major tributary farther down stream. Measuring in length, the Chepo-Bayano is the third longest river of Panama.Bayano River
Coquira, in the lower reaches, is the main riverine port.


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Cimarron People (Panama)
The Cimarrons in Panama were enslaved Africans who had escaped from their Spanish masters and lived together as maroons. In the 1570s, they allied with Francis Drake of England to defeat the Spanish conquest. In ''Sir Francis Drake Revived'' (1572), Drake describes the Cimarrons as "a black people which about eighty years past fled from the Spaniards their masters, by reason of their cruelty, and are since grown to a nation, under two kings of their own. The one inhabiteth to the west, the other to the east of the way from Nombre de Dios, Colón, Nombre de Dios". Etymology In all likelihood, the name Maroons is derived from the Spanish word ''cimarrón'', meaning "wild" or "untamed". This word usually referred to runaways or castaways and is ultimately derived from the word for "thicket" in Old Spanish. A less common folk etymology holds that ''cimarron '' comes from the Taino language, Taino word ''si'maran'' meaning "the flight of an arrow". History Slave rebellions and uprisi ...
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Pedro De Ursúa
Pedro de Ursúa (1526 – 1561) was a Spanish conquistador from Baztan in Navarre. He is best known for his final trip with Lope de Aguirre in search for El Dorado, where he found death in a plot. He was born in Arizkun, Baztan, to a Beaumont family who supported the Spanish occupation of Navarre, benefiting directly from the Navarrese loyalist defeat at Amaiur in July 1522. In Panama, Ursúa subdued a Cimarron (ex-slave) revolt by tricking Cimarron leader Bayano into coming unprepared to negotiate a truce. He then captured Bayano and sent him back to King Philip II of Spain. Together with Ortún Velázquez de Velasco, Pedro de Ursúa founded the city of Pamplona, New Kingdom of Granada, on November 1, 1549. Ursúa later searched the Amazon region for '' El Dorado'' with Lope de Aguirre. When Ursúa would not allow Aguirre's mistress on the expedition, Aguirre conspired with another officer, Fernando de Guzman, to use this rejection as a pretext to start a riot in which ...
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Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half the country's million people. Panama was inhabited by indigenous tribes before Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century. It broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Canal to be completed by the United States Army Corps of En ...
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Miguel De Buría
Miguel I of Buría (Spanish: ''Miguel de Buría''; c. 1510 – c. 1555), also known as King Miguel (Spanish: ''Rey Miguel''), Miguel the Black (Spanish: ''El Negro Miguel'') and Miguel Guacamaya, was formerly enslaved in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and reigned as the King of Buría in the modern-day state of Lara, Venezuela. His incumbency began in 1552 and lasted until some point between 1553 and 1555. He obtained his political influence and the control of the region adjacent to the Buría River after leading the first African rebellion in the country's history. This may have been because Buría had more slaves than other regions in Venezuela, of which most joined Miguel, and was still being contested between the Europeans and the natives, who also joined his side). During this insurrection he took over the Minas de San Felipe de Buría in modern-day Simón Planas Municipality, gold mines established within the area with the consent of the Spanish Crown to pull out the ore that was dis ...
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Colonialism
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Rebel Slaves
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Panamanian Roman Catholics
Panamanians (Spanish: ''Panameños'') are people identified with Panama, a transcontinental country in Central America (a region within North America) and South America, whose connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Panamanians, several or all of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their Panamanian identity. Panama is a multilingual and multicultural society, home to people of many different ethnicities and religions. Therefore, many Panamanians do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Panama. The overwhelming majority of Panamanians are the product of varying degrees of admixture between European ethnic groups (predominantly Spaniards) with native Amerindians who are indigenous to Panama's modern territory. The culture held in common by most Panamanians is referred to as mainstream Panamanian culture, a culture largely derived from the traditions of the Indigenous people and the ...
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Panamanian Slaves
Panamanians (Spanish: ''Panameños'') are people identified with Panama, a transcontinental country in Central America (a region within North America) and South America, whose connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Panamanians, several or all of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their Panamanian identity. Panama is a multilingual and multicultural society, home to people of many different ethnicities and religions. Therefore, many Panamanians do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Panama. The overwhelming majority of Panamanians are the product of varying degrees of admixture between European ethnic groups (predominantly Spaniards) with native Amerindians who are indigenous to Panama's modern territory. The culture held in common by most Panamanians is referred to as mainstream Panamanian culture, a culture largely derived from the traditions of the Indigenous people and the ...
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