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Weekend In Panama d L o c a t i o n All you see when you look out you're window is water and beautiful plantation. Clear blue water for miles upon miles. Green palm trees, orchards, ferns plants jet up through the ground. Tourists calmly walking along the beaches enjoying the day. With water surrounding the country of Panama. There are more than three common languages spoken. Being Spanish, English, and native languages of Panama tribes. They may have very little for tech like hydropower and satellite TV is all, but look at the rest of it all. The country is filled with several beaches, forests, and a wonderful river. It may be a come name for a capital which is called Panama City, but it is a fantastic It has an absolute location of 8.5380° N, 80.7821° W. It has a very large population of anywhere in 3 million people. There are several landforms for

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Weekend In Panama dLocation

All you see when you look out you're window is water and beautiful plantation. Clear blue water for miles upon miles. Green palm trees, orchards, ferns plants jet up through the ground. Tourists calmly walking along the beaches enjoying the day. With water surrounding the country of Panama. There are more than three common languages spoken. Being Spanish, English, and native languages of Panama tribes. They may have very little for tech like hydropower and satellite TV is all, but look at the rest of it all. The country is filled with several beaches, forests, and a wonderful river. It may be a come name for a capital which is called Panama City, but it is a fantastic It has an absolute location of 8.5380° N, 80.7821° W. It has a very large population of anywhere in 3 million people. There are several landforms for example, Chagres River, Island Contadora, heavily forested hills, beaches, etc. This beautiful country is located in the Northwestern Hemisphere.

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Place

Panama is a beautiful place with glorious rain forests, lovely white sand beaches, and mountains that reach for the stars. Off the coast of Panama there are 1,500 islands full of surprises and with amazing scenery. Panama is also the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.The women of Panama wear polleras, which are long white dresses embroider with colors and patterns that pop. The men wear montunos, montunos are white soft cotton shirts that sometimes are embroider and then they wear short pants. If you ever go to this delightful place plan on speaking Spanish since this is Panama's main language. Panama has luscious farmland where many crops are grown like coffee, coco, and bananas. Afterreading your probably hungry, and when this happens to Panamanians they normally enjoy corn tortillas with meat and rice with vegetables.

Region

If you go to Panama here are some places you might want to visit . Central Panama: One of the things people like to do there is go to El Valle de Antón. El Valle de Antón is a mountain hideaway in the crater of an extinct volcano and its tallest peak is 1,173m or 3,850ft. At the pacific coast southwest Panama City, is a highly visited spot because of its beaches and resorts. Farther southwest is the

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Azuero Peninsula which has been highly deforested but is still another good tourism spot because of the traditional festivals, handicrafts, and Spanish villages that have structures that date back to the medieval times Bocas del Toro Archipelago: It is at the northwest of the country and is near the border with Costa Rica.It is one of the wettest places in Panama but has it a dry climate in September through October and February through March. Some indigenous groups are the Spanish descendants and the Afro-Caribbeans. There are beautiful beaches there but sometimes have strong riptides. Most tourists visit hear to scuba dive, snorkel, boat, or to see wildlife.The Western Highlands: It has valleys and peaks of fertile soil, crystal-clear rivers, and mild temperatures. The region centers around the Volcán Barú, a dormant volcano surrounded by a moist cloud forest.The Darien: It is located at the most eastern part of Panama. The Darien is full of compressed rainforests and swamplands. Tourists like to visit the Darien National Park and Pan-American Highway, a long pathway from Alaska to Puerto Montt, Chile. A favorited resort would be the Tropic Star Lodge. At the star lodge you have many activates including fishing, visiting close tribes, kayak,The Comarca Kuna Yala (The San Blas Archipelago): The most well known indigenous group is here and it is called the Kunas. The Kuna are known for their tightly knit culture, colorful clothing, and handicrafts such as "mola" tapestries. Over 300 islands full of pine trees make up the archipelago.

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One of the most famous cruise stops is the San Blas. San Blas is approximately 365 small islands and only about 49 of them are inhabited.

Movement

August 15, 1914 is when the panama canal was made. this magnificent canal brings 313 million tons of goods cross the canal last year. All the things shipped threw there earn the country around $6.96B in exports. The country pays around $34.1B in imports. The goods they export out consist of coffee grains, bananas, beef, and tropical hardwoods. The goods they import consist of . The main places these goods are shipped to are Ecuador, Russia, Venezuela, Guatemala, and South Korea. Ecuador, this place buys around $1.24B of goods. Russia, they buy around $959M of goods. Venezuela, they buy around $879M in goods. Guatemala, they buy around $558M of goods. And South Korea, they buy around $479M of goods. Panama is almost all roman catholic due to its native people who settled there. The main ethnic groups of these settlers where Indian people, chines people, Mexicans, and Africans.

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H & E Int.

There are two seasons dry and a rainy season, most people relax during the rainy season, while in the dry season people like to hike and scuba dive. Dry season lasts from mid December to mid April, rainy lasts from mid April to mid December. The Gutam damn was built in order to create the Gutam lake from 1907-1914. Panama city panama is the capitol of panama and is also the largest city in the panama republic but its construction caused mass deforestation and a loss of animal homes.Offshore waters in panama contain many variations of fish and fishing is one of there most significant sector in the national economy. The ash from volcanos keeps the ground loose which makes the soil fertile for good farming. September 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty promising to give control of the canal to then Panamanians by the year 2000.