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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.
The Guna (also spelled Kuna or Cuna) are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. Guna people live in three politically autonomous comarcas or autonomous reservations in Panama, and in a few small villages in Colombia. There are also communities of Guna people in Panama City, Colón, and other cities.
Indigenous regions are shown in the table in italics. Note: the HDI values are calculated using pre-2014 borders, so the newly established Panamá Oeste Province (which was split from Panamá Province ) is not included in the data and neither is the Naso Tjër Di Comarca since it was created in 2018.
Many languages, including seven indigenous languages, are spoken in Panama, although Spanish is the official and dominant language. The local variant is Panamanian Spanish . English is sometimes spoken by many professionals and those working in the business or governmental sectors of society.
Afro-Panamanians are Panamanians of African descent. The population can be mainly broken into two categories: "Afro-Colonials", those descended from slaves brought to Panama during the colonial period; and "Afro-Antilleans", West Indian immigrant descendants with origins in Trinidad, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Belize, Barbados, and Jamaica, whose ancestors ...
Indigenous peoples in Panama (5 C, 9 P) J. Jews and Judaism in Panama (1 C, 1 P) P. Panamanian people by descent (9 C) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Panama"
These games held in the Embera town of Piriati, drew athletes who will represent Panama in the third edition of the World Indigenous Peoples Games. AP PHOTOS: Indigenous Panamanians compete in ...
Central America is a subregion of the Americas [1] formed by six Latin American countries and one (officially) Anglo-American country, Belize.As an isthmus it connects South America with the remainder of mainland North America, and comprises the following countries (from north to south): Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.