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The Darién Gap (UK: / ˈ d ɛər i ə n, ˈ d ær-/, [1] [2] US: / ˌ d ɛər i ˈ ɛ n, ˌ d ɑːr-, d ɑːr ˈ j ɛ n /, [1] [3] [4] Spanish: Tapón del Darién [taˈpon del daˈɾjen], lit. ' Darién plug ' ) [ 5 ] is a geographic region that connects the American continents , stretching across southern Panama 's Darién Province and the ...
In Saki's story "The Talking-out of Tarrington", a character is greeted with a " 'silent-upon-a-peak-in-Darien' stare which denoted an absence of all previous acquaintance with the object scrutinised". G. K. Chesterton, in his poem "The Logical Vegetarian", uses "I am silent on a bally peak in Darien" to mock vegetarian grandiosity. [24]
The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia, a colony in the Darién Gap on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s.
The investigation is the first of a series Human Rights Watch will publish about the Darien Gap. You can read the report in English here. You can read the report in Spanish here.
Deep in the Panamanian jungle, Venezuelan migrant Franca Ramirez was scrambling to reach higher ground as a rushing river broke its banks, he said, when something caught his eye: a group of young ...
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The Serranía del Darién is a small mountain range on the border between Colombia and Panamá in the area called the Darién Gap.It is located in the southeastern part of the Darién Province of Panamá and the northwestern part of the Chocó Department of Colombia.
The government of Panama said Thursday it will launch a new campaign to stem the flow of migrants through the dangerous, jungle-clad Darien Gap, after crossings hit 300,000 so far this year. The ...