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It was the first flag of Panama, from November 3, 1903 to 1904 Flag of Panama flying from a pole. The wife of Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla designed the first serious proposal for a Panamanian flag. [4] Bunau-Varilla's design was based on the flag of the United States, possibly on account of that country's hand in Panamanian independence.
There are 8 five-point stars arrayed in a curve around the top of the middle symbol. (1925–2010) Flag of revolution of Guna and former Guna Yala flag Horizontal tricolor with an enlarged middle yellow stripe, with orange top and bottom stripes. In the middle rests a black left-facing swastika. (1942) Former flag of Guna Yala
Five unequal horizontal bands; the top-most band of blue - equal to one half the width of the flag - is followed by three bands of white, red, and white, each equal to 1/12 of the width, and a bottom stripe of blue equal to one quarter of the flag width; a circle of 10 yellow, five-pointed stars is centered on the red stripe and positioned 3/8 ...
The Panamanian coat of arms is a heraldic symbol for Panama. These arms were adopted provisionally and then definitively by the same laws that adopted the Panamanian flag. The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja), the Panamanian national bird, is the species of eagle on this coat of arms. [1]
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.
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A ship is guided through the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks near Panama City on April 24, 2023. (Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images)
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