Unión Chocó () is a town in the
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 ...
nian indigenous territory (''
comarca indígena
A ''comarca'' (, or , or ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a March (t ...
'') of
Emberá. It is located in, and is the capital of,
Cémaco District.
Omar Torrijos
Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981) was the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard and military leader of Panama from 1968 to his death in 1981. Torrijos was never officially the president of Panama, ...
designated the land for the villgae in 1969, and the first houses were built in 1970.
[Torrijos, Omar (13 July 2020)]
Union Choco y su relacion con Omar Torrijos y Colombia
''La Estrella de Panamá
''La Estrella de Panamá'' is the oldest daily newspaper in Panamá.
The newspaper originally began in 1849 as a Spanish-language translation insert of an English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may al ...
'' (in Spanish)
References
Populated places in Darién Province
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