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The San Blas Islands of Panama is an archipelago comprising approximately 365 islands and cays, of which 49 are inhabited. [1] They lie off the north coast of the Isthmus of Panama, east of the Panama Canal. [2] A part of the comarca (district) Guna Yala along the Caribbean coast of Panama, it is home to the Kuna people.
Map of Panama. This is a list of islands of Panama. [1] Caribbean Sea. Bocas del Toro Archipelago. Isla Bastimentos; ... San Blas Islands. Corazón de Jesús;
Cartí Sugtupu, also spelled Gardi Sugdub, [1] is an island in the San Blas Archipelago in the Guna Yala province of Panama.It is the southernmost and largest of four populated Carti Islands (the others are Cartí Tupile in the north, Carti Yandup in the west, and Carti Muladub in the east), [2] and it lies 1200 meters off the northern coast of mainland Panama.
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.
The military nature of San Blas distinguished it from the commercial port of Acapulco to the south. A subtext to the founding of San Blas may have been Gálvez' desire to curtail tax evasion on trade with Asia out of Acapulco, which was controlled by businessmen of Mexico City. [4] Both Acapulco and San Blas tied New Spain to Asia through Manila.
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Most Guna live on small islands off the coast of the comarca of Guna Yala known as the San Blas Islands. The other two Guna comarcas in Panama are Kuna de Madugandí and Kuna de Wargandí. They are Guna-speaking people who once occupied the central region of what is now Panama and the neighboring San Blas Islands and still survive in marginal ...
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