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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 ...
Map of the Darién Gap and the break in the Pan-American Highway between Yaviza, Panama and Turbo, Colombia. The Pan-American Highway is interrupted between Panama and Colombia by a 106 km (66 mi) stretch of marshland known as the Darién Gap. The highway terminates at Turbo, Colombia, and Yaviza, Panama. Because of swamps, marshes, and rivers ...
Region. Latin America and the Caribbean. 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 Darien Gap is a tangle of mountains, marshes and rainforest 30 miles wide and 100 miles long that is the only land bridge between South America and Panama. An estimated half-million U.S.-bound ...
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.
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 ...
The flow of thousands of migrants daily through the treacherous migratory highway, the Darien Gap, has been cut off following the capture of a number of boat captains who had been ferrying the ...
Colombia–Panama border. The Colombia–Panama border is the 339-kilometer-long (211 mi) international boundary between Colombia and Panama. [1] It also splits the Darién Gap, a break across the South American and North American continents. This large watershed, forest, and mountainous area is in the north-western portion of Colombia's Chocó ...