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The national flag of Panama was made by María de la Ossa de Amador and was officially adopted by the "ley 48 de 1925". [1] The Panamanian flag day is celebrated on November 4, one day after Panamanian separation from Colombia, and is one of a series of holidays celebrated in November known as the Fiestas Patrias.
In 1501, Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama sailing along the eastern coast. A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Portobelo (Beautiful Port) which he named.
The History of Panama. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33322-4. Johnson, Willis Fletcher (1906). Four Centuries of the Panama Canal. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Co. OCLC 576076780. Lafeber, Walter. The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective (3rd ed. 1990). McCullough, David (1977).
Flag of the Republic of Colombia (1886–1903) (1824–1855) Flag of the Isthmus Department: A horizontal tricolor with an enlarged yellow top stripe with a blue and red stripe at the bottom. In the top-left is the coat of arms of Gran Colombia. (1855–1863) Flag of The Panama State
Panama escaped armed violence over the constitutional question but joined other regions in petitioning Bolívar to assume dictatorial powers until a convention could meet. Panama announced its union with Gran Colombia as a "Hanseatic State", i.e., as an autonomous area with special trading privileges until the convention was held.
Flag of Cartagena de Indias, in use for the United Provinces of New Granada: 1819–1820: 1st Flag of Great Colombia: 1820–1821: 2nd Flag of Great Colombia: 1821-1831: 3rd Flag of Great Colombia: 1830–1834: Flag of Republic of New Granada: 1834 - July 26, 1861: Flag of Republic of New Granada and the Granadine Confederation: July 26, 1861 ...
The other two stripes the middle blue and the bottom red will each be a fourth of the total area of the flag. The yellow color represents Colombia's gold and natural wealthiness; the blue color represents the two oceans that border Colombia, the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, rivers and the sky; The red color represents the blood of the patriots ...
Panama's first act of separation from Spain came without violence. When Simón Bolívar's victory at Boyacá on August 7, 1819, clinched the liberation of New Granada, the Spanish viceroy fled Colombia for Panama, where he ruled harshly until his death in 1821. His replacement in Panama, a liberal constitutionalist, permitted a free press and ...