Boquerón District is a
district
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(''distrito'') of
Chiriquí Province
Chiriquí () is a province of Panama located on the western coast; it is the second most developed province in the country, after the Panamá Province. Its capital is the city of David. It has a total area of 6,490.9 km², with a population ...
in
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 Co ...
. The population according to the
2000 census was 12,275.
The district covers a total area of 282 km². The capital lies at the city of
Boquerón.
Administrative divisions
Boquerón District is divided administratively into the following ''
corregimientos'':
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Boquerón (capital)
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Bágala
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Cordillera
A cordillera is an extensive chain and/or network system of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas. The term is borrowed from Spanish, where the word comes from , a diminutive of ('rope').
The term is most commonly u ...
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Guabal
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Guayabal
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Paraíso
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Pedregal
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Tijeras
References
Districts of Panama
Chiriquí Province
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