|
Cerro Azul, Panama
Cerro Azul (''Blue Hill'') is a mountainous part of Panamá Province, Panama Province. There is a well marked road leading to Cerro Azul from the 24 de Diciembre town of the Panama District of Panama City. The mountains reach an altitude of 950 meters (Cerro Jefe). Cerro Azul includes several villages including Rancho Cafe, Buena Vista, Las Vistas, Las Nubes and Los Altos. There is a lake on the main route to Cerro Azul where spectacled caiman, spectacled caimans have been spotted. The climate of Cerro Azul is pretty cool and it is a preferred weekend retreat for wealthy city dwellers wanting to escape the heat. Cerro Azul is an important poultry farming area, the Panamanian chicken and egg producer MELO has its production headquarters in Cerro Azul. Las Nubes and Los Altos de Cerro Azul have notable expatriate communities of mainly North American origin. Cerro Azul has gotten global media coverage after the "Panama Creature, Cerro Azul monster" discovery. Urbanization Los Altos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Vigía
The Alberto Adriani Municipality () (better known as El Vigia) is one of the 23 Municipalities of Venezuela, municipalities () that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida (state), Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 128,222. The town of El Vigía is the County seat, shire town of the Alberto Adriani Municipality.http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Merida.zip Demographics The Alberto Adriani Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 128,222 (up from 109,215 in 2000). This amounts to 15.2% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is . Government The mayor of the Alberto Adriani Municipality is Luis Guillermo Rojas Mendoza, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 59% of the vote. The municipality is divided into seven parishes; Presidente Betancourt, Presidente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panamá Province
Panamá is a province of Panama. It is the location of the national capital Panama City, which also serves as the provincial capital. The governor of the province is Judy Meana, appointed by President Laurentino Cortizo and sworn in on 16 April 2020. Administrative divisions Panamá Province is now divided into 6 ''distritos'' (districts) and subdivided into 55 '' corregimientos''. The five former districts west of the Panama Canal were split off to form Panamá Oeste Province Panamá Oeste (; "West Panama" in English) is the newest province in Panama. It was created from the five districts of Panamá Province west of the Panama Canal The Panama Canal ( es, Canal de Panamá, link=no) is an artificial waterway i ... on 1 January 2014. 1 These ''corregimientos'' represent as Panama City 2 These ''corregimientos'' represent as San Miguelito City References {{DEFAULTSORT:Panama Province Provinces of Panama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama City
Panama City ( es, Ciudad de Panamá, links=no; ), also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. The city is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative center of the country, as well as a hub for banking and commerce. The city of Panama was founded on 15 August 1519, by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point for expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. It was a stopover point on one of the most important trade routes in the American continent, leading to the fairs of Nombre de Dios and Portobelo, through which passed most of the gold and silver that Spain mined from the Americas. On 28 January 1671, the original city was destroyed by a fire when the privateer Henry Morgan sacked and set fire to it. The city was formally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama Creature
The "Panama Creature" (also variously referred to as the "Panama Monster", "Panama ET" "Cerro Azul Monster", "Blue Stream Monster" or "Blue Hill Horror") refers to a carcass photographed near the town of Cerro Azul, Panama, in September 2009. After the animal was discovered and reputedly killed by a group of teenagers, photographs of the corpse were given to Telemetro, a Panamanian television station. The story and pictures circulated, and comparisons to the Montauk Monster were made. There was speculation about the identity of the creature, with suggestions including a hairless sloth, an alien species and a creature new to science. A biopsy performed by the National Environmental Authority of Panama on the remains a few days after the creature's discovery concluded that the corpse was in fact that of a male brown-throated sloth. The odd appearance had been caused by underwater decomposition, which had resulted in hair loss. Once identified, the corpse was buried. Events A gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
_(14597444780).jpg "Click for more on -> Panama City")
