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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.
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
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 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).
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.
Once nearly impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America, the jungle between Colombia and Panama this year became a speedy but still treacherous highway for hundreds of thousands of ...
The national flag of Colombia symbolizes that the nation gained its independence from Spain on 20 July 1810. [1] It is a unequal horizontal tricolor of yellow, blue and red in a 2:1:1 ratio. The yellow stripe takes up a half of the flag while the blue and red stripes take up a quarter of the space each.