Cañazas is a
corregimiento
''Corregimiento'' (; ca, Corregiment, ) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites. A ''corregimiento'' was usually headed by a '' corr ...
in
Cañazas District
Cañazas District is a district (''distrito'') of Veraguas Province in Panama. The population according to the 2000 census was 15,999; the latest official estimate (for 2019) is 18,022.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Panama. The distr ...
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Veraguas Province
Veraguas () is a province of Panama, located in the centre-west of the country. The capital is the city of Santiago de Veraguas. It is the only Panamanian province to border both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It covers an area of 10,587.6&nb ...
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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 4,836 as of 2010.
[ It is the seat of Cañazas District.][ Its population as of 1990 was 8,015; its population as of 2000 was 5,346.][
An extinct, unclassified indigenous language known as ''Urraca'' or ''Esquegua'' was spoken just north of the modern city of Cañazas, Panama.]
References
Corregimientos of Veraguas Province
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