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Panama is divided into ten provinces (Spanish: provincias) and four provincial-level indigenous regions (Spanish: comarcas indígenas, often shortened to comarcas). There are also two indigenous regions within provinces that are considered equivalent to a corregimiento (municipality).
Bocas del Toro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbokas ðel ˈtoɾo]; meaning "Mouths of the Bull") is a province of Panama. Its area is 4,643.9 square kilometers, comprising the mainland and nine main islands. [5] The province consists of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Bahía Almirante (Almirante Bay), Chiriquí Lagoon, and adjacent mainland.
Gulf of Panama Islands Farallon (Cliff) Isla Iguana - Pedasi - Azuero; Panama Bay Islands (Panama Bay is part of the Gulf of Panama) Causeway Islands; Otoque; Taboga;
The San Blas Islands of Panama is an archipelago comprising approximately 365 islands and cays, of which 49 are inhabited. [1] They lie off the north coast of the Isthmus of Panama, east of the Panama Canal. [2] A part of the comarca (district) Guna Yala along the Caribbean coast of Panama, it is home to the Kuna people.
The islands are accessible by water taxis and private boats. Isla Colón is accessible by airplanes, ferries, private boats, and water taxis. Bocas del Toro "Isla Colón" International Airport, located just west of Bocas Town, provides air transportation to and from the islands.
Cartí Sugtupu, also spelled Gardi Sugdub, [1] is an island in the San Blas Archipelago in the Guna Yala province of Panama.It is the southernmost and largest of four populated Carti Islands (the others are Cartí Tupile in the north, Carti Yandup in the west, and Carti Muladub in the east), [2] and lies 1200 meters off the northern coast of mainland Panama.
Hammocks began appearing this week in the doorways of 300 new houses built in what was previously a yucca field along Panama’s Caribbean coast for families from the country's first low-lying ...
Guna Yala is politically subdivided into four corregimientos (districts), with a total of 51 comunidades (communities), [9] 49 of which are located on islands of the San Blas Archipelago off the mainland coast, and only the two easternmost on the mainland. They are listed from west to east: