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The indigenous peoples of Panama, also known as Native Panamanians, are the original inhabitants of Panama, is the Native peoples whose history in the territory of today's Panama predates Spanish colonization. As of the 2010 census, Indigenous peoples constitute 12.3% of Panama’s population of 3.4 million, totaling just over 418,000 individuals.
[13] [14] In Guna philosophy, the albinistic people (or "sipu") were given a special place and are considered a special race of people. [12] They have the specific duty of defending the moon against a dragon which tries to eat it on occasion during a lunar eclipse , and only they are allowed to go outside on the night of a lunar eclipse and to ...
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).
[13] In addition to these settled communities, many Emberá now also live in urban areas. According to the 2010 Panamanian National Census, over one third of Panamanian Emberá people live in the central province of Panamá, and over 25% of the total Panamanian Emberá population reside in urban districts of Panama City.
Template:Panama TV; RPC TV Canal 4; TVN Canal 2; Telemetro Canal 13; FETV Canal 5; ETV Canal 6; SERTV Canal 11; TVMax Canal 9; NexTV Canal 21; Mall TV Canal 7 +23 Canal 23 (Panama's first music station) Enlace Canal 29; NexTV Canal 33 (temp. mirroring signal from +23) Plus Canal 35; Hosana Visión Canal 37; ACP (Canal TV) Canal 25 (water level ...
By Elida Moreno. PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Panamanians marched on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a deadly uprising against U.S. control of the Panama Canal in 1964, with some ...
Guna Yala in Kuna 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.
Postal codes in Panama were introduced in 2007. [1] The postal code consists of four numeric digits. The first two digits represent the province or provincial-level indigenous region .