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The Pan-American Highway is a system of roads measuring about 30,000 km (19,000 mi) [16] in length that runs north–south through the entirety of North, Central and South America, with the sole exception of a 106 km (66 mi) stretch of marshland and mountains between Panama and Colombia known as the Darién Gap.
Region. Latin America and the Caribbean. Darién National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Darién) is a World Heritage Site in Panama. It is about 325 kilometers (202 mi) from Panama City, is the most extensive of all national parks of Panama, and is one of the most important World Heritage Sites in Central America.
Darién (UK: / ˈ d ɛər i ə n, ˈ d ær-/, [3] [4] US: / ˌ d ɛər i ˈ ɛ n, ˌ d ɑːr-, d ɑːr ˈ j ɛ n /, [3] [5] [6] Spanish:) is a province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma.With an area of 11,896.5 km 2 (4,593.3 sq mi), it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá and the region of Kuna Yala.
Approximately 70% of migrants coming through the 60-mile stretch of the Darien jungle these days are from Venezuela. The migrants we met told us the numbers will grow even higher because they see ...
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 plan was for the colony, located on the Gulf of Darién, to establish and manage an overland route to ...
The Chocó–Darién moist forests (NT0115) is a largely forested, tropical ecoregion of northwestern South America and southern Central America.The ecoregion extends from the eastern Panamanian province of Darién and the indigenous region of Guna Yala to almost the entirety of Colombia's Pacific coast, including the departments of Cauca, Chocó, Nariño and Valle del Cauca.
The Darien Scheme. The Gulf of Darién was the site of the Darien scheme, autonomous Scotland 's one major attempt at colonialism. The first expedition of five ships (Saint Andrew, Caledonia, Unicorn, Dolphin, and Endeavour) set sail from Leith on July 14, 1698, with around 1,200 people on board. [6] Their orders were "to proceed to the Bay of ...
Embera-Wounaan. Embera girls in a parade held in Chitré, capital of the province of Herrera, Panama. The Embera-Wounaan are a semi-nomadic Indigenous people in Panama living in Darién Province on the shores of the Chucunaque, Sambú, and Tuira Rivers and their waterways. The Embera-Wounaan were formerly and widely known by the name Chocó ...