Paya is a

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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 bord ...

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 ...

with a population of 639 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 336; its population as of 2000 was 565. It lies on the Paya River, a tributary of the

Tuira River The Tuira River is located in the Darién Province of eastern Panama. It flows into the Bay of San Miguel at the province capital of La Palma. It is the largest river in Panama, and one of its tributaries, the Chucunaque River, is the longes ...

, and close to the Colombia–Panama border.Yeadon, David (16 August 1992)
Panama GAp: Into the Heart of the Darien, By Boat and On Foot
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Corregimientos of Darién Province {{Darién-geo-stub