Metetí is a town and

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Pinogana District Pinogana District () is a district (''distrito'') of Darién Province in Panama. The population according to the 2000 census was 12,823; the latest estimate (for 2019) is 26,160.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo, Panama. The district cov ...

Darién Province Darién (, , ) is a province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma. With an area of , it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá and the region of Kuna Yala. To the south, it is border ...

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 7,976 as of 2010. It was created by Law 58 of July 29, 1998, owing to the Declaration of Unconstitutionality of Law 1 of 1982. Its population as of 2000 was 6,244. It is the last major town on the

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before the highway ends 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 ...

.Friar, William. ''Panama''.

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(2008), p. 422–23. . Most of the town's residents are originally from

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 ...

. The town has a bank with an ATM, a few restaurants and hotels, a police station, and a gas station.

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Corregimientos of Darién Province Populated places in Darién Province {{Darién-geo-stub