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The Pan-American Highway is a system of roads measuring about 30,000 km (19,000 mi) [14] 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.
Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama's migration ...
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 .
As our helicopter hovered over the treetops in the ungoverned region between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien jungle, the sheer density and darkness of the jungle below were striking ...
Migrants walking by the jungle near Bajo Chiquito village, the first border control of the Darien Province in Panama, on September 22, 2023. - Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images
Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border area separating Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled ...
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.
The Darien Gap earned its name because it is the break in the Pan-American Highway connecting South and North America. Darien is also the name of Panama’s easternmost province, which abuts Colombia.