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Chiriquí Grande 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 ...
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Chiriquí Grande District Chiriquí Grande is a district (''distrito'') of Bocas del Toro Province in Panama. The population according to the 2000 census was 7,431; the latest official estimate (for 2019) is 14,533.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Panama. The d ...
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Bocas del Toro Province Bocas del Toro (; meaning "Mouth of the Bull") is a province of Panama. Its area is 4,643.9 square kilometers, comprising the mainland and nine main islands. The province consists of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Bahía Almirante (Almirante Bay ...
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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 ...
. It is the seat of Chiriquí Grande District. It has a land area of and had a population of 3,014 as of 2010, giving it a population density of . Its population as of 1990 was 7,637; its population as of 2000 was 2,069. The town is located on the southern shore of
Chiriquí Lagoon Chiriquí Lagoon is a large lagoon on the northwest coast of Panama covering an area of about . It is separated from the Caribbean Sea by the Valiente Peninsula to the east and from Almirante Bay by islands in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago to t ...
and its port serves as the northern terminus of the
Trans-Panama pipeline The Trans-Panama Pipeline ( es, Oleoducto Chiriqui Bocas del Toro) is an oil pipeline across Panama near the Costa Rican border from the port of Chiriqui Grande, Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean coast to the port of Charco Azul on the Pacific coa ...
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Corregimientos of Bocas del Toro Province Panamanian coasts of the Caribbean Sea Populated coastal places in Panama Ports and harbours of Panama {{BocasdelToro-geo-stub