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Puerto Obaldía
Puerto Obaldía is the smallest and easternmost of the four ''corregimientos'' of the Kuna Yala indigenous region of Panama, located on the border with Colombia. This is a mainland area that does not contain any islands. It has an aerodrome An aerodrome, airfield, or airstrip is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use. Aerodromes inc ... with scheduled flights. There are no roads. At the census of population of 2000, the number was 672, of which 533 resided in the main town of Puerto Obaldía. Other settlements were ''La Miel'' (pop. 80), on the Colombian border, ''La Boca'' (pop. 31), and ''Playa Blanca'' (pop. 28). The main industry in Puerto Obaldía is Panamanian border and customs control. It is only some 10 miles from the Colombian border; boats connect it with Acandí, on the Colombian side. See also * List of lighth ...
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Guna Yala
Guna Yala, also known as Kuna Yala or by its former name San Blas, is a ''Comarca#Panama, comarca indígena'' (indigenous province) in northeast Panama. Guna Yala is home to the indigenous people known as the Guna people, Gunas. Its capital is Gaigirgordub, Guna Yala, Gaigirgordub. It is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by the Darién Province and Comarca Emberá-Wounaan, Emberá-Wounaan, on the east by Colombia, and on the west by the province of Colón Province, Colón. 32,016 people lived here in 2023, with over 95% of them being Indigenous peoples of Panama, indigenous peoples. Etymology Guna Yala in Guna language, Guna means "Land Guna" or "Guna Mountain". The area was formerly known as San Blas, and later as Kuna Yala, but the name was changed in October 2011 to "Guna Yala" when the Government of Panama recognized the claim of the people that "Guna" was a closer representation of the name. History The area was the site of the conquistador st ...
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Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half of the country's over million inhabitants. Before the arrival of Spanish Empire, Spanish colonists in the 16th century, Panama was inhabited by a number of different Indigenous peoples of Panama, indigenous tribes. It Independence Act of Panama, broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Viceroyalty of New Granada, Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Ca ...
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Kuna Yala
Kuna may refer to: Places * Kuna, Idaho, a town in the United States ** Kuna Caves, a lava tube in Idaho * Kuna Peak, a mountain in California * Kuna Pelješka, a village in the Orebić municipality, Croatia * , a village in the Konavle municipality, Croatia * , a river in Alaska North Slope * , in Venezuela and Guyana * * * * , also called People with the surname * Henryk Kuna (1885–1945), Polish sculptor * Kuna Srisailam Goud (born 1965), Indian politician * Ladislav Kuna Ladislav Kuna (3 April 1947 – 1 February 2012) was a Slovak footballer and manager who played as a central midfielder. Kuna played 424 matches and scored 86 goals in the Czechoslovak First League, all for Spartak Trnava. His number of appea ... (1947–2012), Slovak football player Ships * ''Kuna'' (icebreaker), the oldest river icebreaker still in service in the world Other uses * Croatian kuna, a currency used between 1994 and 2023 * Independent State of Croatia kuna, a curre ...
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 Departments of Colombia, departments. The Capital District of Bogotá is also the List of cities in Colombia by population, country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other major urban areas include Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Colombia, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Villavicencio and Bucaramanga. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi) and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a co ...
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Puerto Obaldia Airport
__NOTOC__ Puerto Obaldia Airport is an airport serving Puerto Obaldía, a Caribbean coastal town in the Guna Yala comarca (indigenous province) of Panama. Between 2008 and 2010, the deteriorated NW/SE runway was replaced with a longer, wider concrete runway 17/35. The runway runs uphill from the sea. Mountainous terrain immediately south and east requires approach and departure be made over the water. The La Palma VOR (Ident: PML) is located west-southwest of the airport. Airlines and destinations See also * * *Transport in Panama *List of airports in Panama This is a list of airports in Panama, sorted by location. International and domestic airports included. __TOC__ Airports Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines. Panama City Tocumen airpor ... References External links OpenStreetMap - Puerto ObaldiaOurAirports - Puerto Obaldia AirportGreat Circle Mapper - Puerto Obaldia Airport* Wikivoyage - Puerto Obald ...
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Port Obaldía
Puerto Obaldia is the main town of ''corregimiento'' Puerto Obaldía, one of four administrative subdivisions of Kuna Yala indigenous region of Panama, located on the border with Colombia. Puerto Obaldia is the location of "the main national police station in the region and the airport serving the border communities of Kuna Yala and an Office of Migration Department of the Ministry of Government and Justice and a consular office in Colombia. the condition of coastal border port business guarantees from both the Colombian and Panamanian side. Apart from trade, the inhabitants of Puerto Obaldia engaged in fishing and agriculture." There are no ATMs and no cell phone coverage. Accessibility Boats are available for Capurganá, Colombia, from U.S. $10. From Puerto Obaldia Airport,Puerto Obaldia (PUE) Panama
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Acandí
Acandí is a town in Colombia at the northern extremity of the department of Chocó in the northwest of Colombia, bordering Panama and the Caribbean Sea. It is from the department's capital, Quibdó. Its average temperature is . It was founded around 1887, and it became a municipality in 1905, previously being part of Turbo. The name "Acandí" is a corruption of the indigenous word "Acanti", which means "River of Stone". It is one of the constituent territories of the region of Darién, together with the towns of Unguía, Juradó and the municipality of Riosucio west of the Atrato river. About 87% of the population are Afro-Colombians, Blacks and Mulato, and the poverty index was estimated at 51 in 2018. Acandí has no road connection with the outside world. It is only about 5 miles (8 km.) from the Panama border. There is a ferry connecting it with Necoclí, some east across the Gulf of Urabá. from which there is a paved road south. This is the route for everything ...
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List Of Lighthouses In Panama
This is a list of lighthouses in Panama. Lighthouses See also * Lists of lighthouses and lightvessels References External links

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Districts Of Panama
The provinces of Panama and some of the comarcas are divided into districts (''distrito''). The district are further divided into corregimientos of Panama In Panama, a corregimiento is a subdivision of a Districts of Panama, district, which in turn is a subdivision of a Provinces of Panama, province. It is the smallest administrative division level in the country; which is further subdivided into .... More than 50% of the country's population resides in the districts of Panama, San Miguelito, Arraijan, Chorrera, and Colon. List References Subdivisions of Panama Panama, Districts Panama 2 Districts, Panama Panama geography-related lists {{Panama-geo-stub ...
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Populated Places In Guna Yala
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ...
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Lighthouses In Panama
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks, and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and the advent of much cheaper, more sophisticated, and more effective electronic navigational systems. History Ancient lighthouses Before the development of clearly defined ports, mariners were guided by fires built on hilltops. Since elevating the fire would improve visibility, placing the fire on a platform became a practice that led to the development of the lighthouse. In antiquity, the lighthouse functioned more as an entrance marker to ports than as a warning signal for reefs and promontories, unlike many moder ...
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