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The Darién Gap (UK: / ˈ d ɛər i ə n, ˈ d ær-/, [1] [2] US: / ˌ d ɛər i ˈ ɛ n, ˌ d ɑːr-, d ɑːr ˈ j ɛ n /, [1] [3] [4] Spanish: Tapón del Darién [taˈpon del daˈɾjen], lit. ' Darién plug ' ) [ 5 ] is a geographic region that connects the American continents , stretching across southern Panama 's Darién Province and the ...
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.
The aircraft was a 12-year-old Boeing 737-200, with registration HP-1205CMP, piloted by Captain Rafael Carlos Chial (53), and First Officer Cesareo Tejada (25), with 5 Flight Attendants on this flight. [5] Copa 201 was carrying 40 passengers and 7 crew. The jet was manufactured in 1980 and entered service with Britannia Airways bearing tail ...
It is known as the 'gap' on Panama's Darien isthmus because it is the only missing section, running about 60 miles, on the Pan-American highway that stretches from Alaska to Argentina.
Last year, more than 500,000 people crossed the Darien Gap, many traveling from Venezuela, and other Latin American, African and Asian countries. From there, migrants wind up through Central ...
The number of people crossing the treacherous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia hit an all-time high in the first seven months of the year, figures released on Monday showed, with July seeing ...
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 ...
Federal officials highlighted Thursday the U.S. government’s efforts to combat migration in the dangerous Darién Gap jungle between Panama and Colombia, where more than 250,000 people are ...