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Río Tuira
The Tuira River is located in the Darién Province of eastern Panama. It flows into the Bay of San Miguel at the province capital of La Palma. It is the largest river in Panama, and one of its tributaries, the Chucunaque River, is the longest river in Panama. The river starts in highlands of Darien, and runs south/southeast, and then north and west. It runs past villages as it flows downstream including Matuganti, Sobiaquirú, El Balsal, Boca de Cupe, Capetí, Yape, Aruza, Unión Chocó, Vista Alegre, and Pinogana.(30 April 2008)Panama: Weary repatriation Relief Web It meets the Chucunaque River at El Real de Santa María and then flows northwest towards La Palma.Tuira River Brittanica.com, Retrieved 30 November 2022 Via the Chucunaque, one can reach |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yape
Yape is a corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 187 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 229; its population as of 2000 was 159. It is located along the Tuira River The Tuira River is located in the Darién Province of eastern Panama. It flows into the Bay of San Miguel at the province capital of La Palma. It is the largest river in Panama, and one of its tributaries, the Chucunaque River, is the longest ..., and not served by any paved roads.(30 April 2008)Panama: Weary repatriation Relief Web References Corregimientos of Darién Province Road-inaccessible communities of Panama {{Darién-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Púcuro
Púcuro is a corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, 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 ... with a population of 356 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 358; its population as of 2000 was 295. It lies along the Púcuro river, which is a tributary of the Tuira. The Geology of the Darien, Panama, and the late Miocene-Pliocene collision of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paya, Darién
Paya is a corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 639 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 336; its population as of 2000 was 565. It lies on the Paya River, a tributary of the Tuira River, and close to the Colombia–Panama border.Yeadon, David (16 August 1992)Panama GAp: Into the Heart of the Darien, By Boat and On Foot ''The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...'' References Corregimientos of Darién Province {{Darién-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway (french: (Auto)route panaméricaine/transaméricaine; pt, Rodovia/Auto-estrada Pan-americana; es, Autopista/Carretera/Ruta Panamericana) is a network of roads stretching across the Americas and measuring about in total length. Except for a break of approximately across the border between southeast Panama and northwest Colombia, called the Darién Gap, the roads link almost all of the Pacific coastal countries of the Americas in a connected highway system. According to ''Guinness World Records'', the Pan-American Highway is the world's longest "motorable road". It is only possible to cross by land between South America and Central America—the last town in Colombia to the first outpost in Panama—by a difficult and dangerous hike of at least four days through the Darién Gap, one of the rainiest areas of the planet. The Pan-American Highway passes through many diverse climates and ecological typesranging from dense jungles to arid deserts and barre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaviza
Yaviza is a town and corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 4,441 as of 2010. Location The town marks the southeastern end of the northern half of the Pan-American Highway, at the north end of the Darién Gap.Leonard, Thomas MHistorical Dictionary of Panama p. xxxv (2015) It lies on the Chucunaque River, a major tributary of the Tuira River, along which travel by boat into the Darién Gap occurs. The nearest town on the river route is El Real de Santa María, which is the capital of Pinogana District. Demographics The population of Yaviza as of 1990 was 8,452, falling to 3,317 as recorded in the year 2000, and rising to 4,441 as of 2010. History The town was founded by Spanish missionaries as San Jerónimo de Yaviza in September 1638.Rutkow, EricThe Longest Line on the Map p. 322 (2019) A Spanish fort (Fuerte de San Geronimo de Yaviza) was built in 1760, and heavily damaged by an attack of the Indigenous Guna in 1780. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Real De Santa María
El Real de Santa María is a corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 1,183 as of 2010. It is the seat of Pinogana District. Its population as of 1990 was 1,201; its population as of 2000 was 1,185. The town of El Real is on the Pirre River, a small tributary of the Tuira River. It is by boat to the town of Yaviza, the terminus of the Pan American Highway. The town was founded by the Spanish as a fort in 1665 to protect their gold mining interests in the area.The history of mining and mineral exploration in Panama: From Pre-Columbian gold mining to modern copper mining Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, vol. 72, no. 3, 00012, 2020 (" The deposits were first worked by the Spaniar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinogana
Pinogana is a corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 405 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 489; its population as of 2000 was 356. It is located along the Tuira River The Tuira River is located in the Darién Province of eastern Panama. It flows into the Bay of San Miguel at the province capital of La Palma. It is the largest river in Panama, and one of its tributaries, the Chucunaque River, is the longest ....(30 April 2008)Panama: Weary repatriation Relief Web References Corregimientos of Darién Province {{Darién-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vista Alegre, Darién
Vista usually refers to a distant view. Vista may also refer to: Software *Windows Vista, the line of Microsoft Windows client operating systems released in 2006 and 2007 *VistA, (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) a medical records system of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and others worldwide *VISTA (comparative genomics), software tools for genome analysis and genomic sequence comparisons * VistaPro, and Vista, 3D landscape generation software for the Amiga and PC *VIsualizing STructures And Sequences, bioinformatics software Organizations and institutions *Vista Entertainment Solutions, a New Zealand software company specializing in solutions for the cinema industry *AmeriCorps VISTA, a national service program to fight poverty through local government agencies and non-profit organizations * Ventura Intercity Service Transit Authority, a public transportation agency in Ventura County, California, US *Vista Community College, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unión Chocó
Unión Chocó () is a town in the Panamanian indigenous territory (''comarca indígena'') of Emberá. It is located in, and is the capital of, Cémaco District. Omar Torrijos designated the land for the villgae in 1969, and the first houses were built in 1970.Torrijos, Omar (13 July 2020)Union Choco y su relacion con Omar Torrijos y Colombia ''La Estrella de Panamá ''La Estrella de Panamá'' is the oldest daily newspaper in Panamá. The newspaper originally began in 1849 as a Spanish-language translation insert of an English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may al ...'' (in Spanish) References Populated places in Darién Province {{Darién-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capetí
Capetí is a town in the Darién Province, Darién Provinces of Panama, province of Panama. Sources World Gazeteer: Panama – World-Gazetteer.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Capeti Populated places in Comarca Emberá-Wounaan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darién Province
Darién (, , ) is a province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma. With an area of , it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá and the region of Kuna Yala. To the south, it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean and Colombia. To the east, it borders Colombia; to the west, it borders the Pacific Ocean and the province of Panama. The area surrounding the border with Colombia is known as the Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest. With no roads, it is the missing link of the Pan-American Highway. Place names The name originates from the language spoken by the Cueva, an Indigenous tribe destroyed by the white European conquistadors during the 16th century. The Tanela River, which flows toward Atrato, was Hispanicized to Darién; the region and its communities took the same name. Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first city founded in Tierra Firme, also took its name from the river. Subsequentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
