Pedasí District
Pedasí () is one of five districts of the Los Santos Province, Panama. History Human settlement in the Azuero peninsula where Pedasí is located dates back anywhere from 11,000 years to 4500 years ago based on pre-Columbian artifacts and other archaeological evidence recovered from various sites on the peninsula. Spanish colonizers arrived in the 16th century, largely wiping out or displacing existing indigenous populations. The district of Pedasí was created in 1840, when Panama was still tenuously united with Colombia (see the History of Panama for more background). At the time, it was a division of the County of Los Santos (today the Los Santos Province, province of Los Santos), in the Province of Panama (which covered all of present-day Panama, except for the provinces of Veraguas Province, Veraguas and Bocas del Toro Province, Bocas del Toro). The population of Pedasí in 1845 was 701 inhabitants. Since then, the land of the Pedasí district has been used extensive ...
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