Lídice is a town and corregimiento in

Capira District Capira is a district (''distrito'') of West Panamá Province in Panama. The population according to the 2000 census was 33,110; the latest official estimate (for 2019) is 47,244.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Panama. The district co ...

, Panamá Oeste Province, Panama with a population of 5,307 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 3,840; its population as of 2000 was 4,711. The town was renamed on 31 October 1943, from Potrero, to commemorate the town of Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (the Czech Republic today) which was razed to the ground, and its population murdered by the SS on June 10, 1942 as a retribution for the

assassination Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have ...

of Reinhard Heydrich, a highly ranked official.

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Corregimientos of Panamá Oeste Province Populated places in Panamá Oeste Province {{PanamáOeste-geo-stub