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Boca de Cupé 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 1,167 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 901; its population as of 2000 was 902. The town is not served by any paved roads, with the
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to the north ending at
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 Dari ...
. It is reachable by boat up the Tuira River. Civilians are not permitted to travel farther east towards Colombia.Moon Central America
(2016) ("Travel up the Rio Tuira beyond Boca de Cupe is considered dangerous and has been off-limits for several years. Boca de Cupe itself has a border-police post, but that doesn't necessarily make it safe.")
Darien Travel Guide
Rough Guides, Retrieved 29 November 2022
In the early 1900s, a single-gage railway ran to the town from the Cana gold mines.Karsten, Matthew (17 September 2019)
The Day I Was Kicked Out of a Panamanian Village
''Expert Vagabond''
It ceased operating in 1911.(25 December 1926)
Gold Areas of the Province of Panama
in ''Engineering and Mining Journal'', p. 1027
Villages within the corregimiento farther up the river include
Sobiaquirú Sobiaquirú is an Embera village in Darién Province, Panama. It is located along the Tuira River upstream of the village of Boca de Cupe, and within the corregimiento of that same name. It is not served by any paved roads.(1 August 2018)Pa ...
.(1 March 2018)
ARAP participa de Gira Interinstitucional en Sobiaquirú, provincia de Darién
La Autoridad de Recursos Acuáticos de Panamá (Translated sentence from Spanish: "The place of destination was the indigenous population of Sobiaquirú located in Alto Tuira of the Corregimiento of Boca de Cupe, province of Darién.")


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Corregimientos of Darién Province Road-inaccessible communities of Panama {{Darién-geo-stub