Panama
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231 entries about Panama
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águila harpía
Panama's national bird and one of the largest and most powerful raptors in the world, with feet nearly the…
ballena jorobada
The whale that comes to Panama's Pacific to calve between July and October, arriving from both hemispheres…
bandera de Panamá
The national flag, split into four quarters: on top, a white one with a blue star and a red one; below, a…
cabalgata
The horseback parade that opens the festivities of nearly any interior town: hundreds of riders, music from…
calipso panameño
Calypso sung in English creole by the Afro-Antillean community of Colón and Bocas del Toro, inherited from…
cantadera
A sung duel between two singers who answer each other in improvised décimas, backed by the mejorana. The…
cantina
A town or neighborhood bar with no pretensions: beer, seco, a jukebox and plastic tables. In the interior…
Carnaval
The four days before Ash Wednesday, Panama's biggest popular festival. The country effectively shuts down…
combo nacional
The Panamanian bands of the 1960s and 70s that mixed son, guaracha, calypso and soul into a format of their…
conejo pintado
A nocturnal rodent with white spots along its back, among the most sought-after bush meats in the Panamanian…
congo
The Afro-descendant cultural tradition of Colón's Caribbean coast, with its own dance, song, speech and…
corotú
A huge broad-crowned tree with an ear-shaped seed pod, the one that shades the pastures of the interior. An…
Corpus Christi
A religious festival celebrated with special fervor in La Villa de Los Santos on the Thursday sixty days…
cuipo
A very tall, pale-trunked tree that rises above the forest canopy, especially in Darién. From the air they…
Desfile de las Mil Polleras
An annual parade in Las Tablas each January in which thousands of women march wearing the pollera. Started…
Día de la Madre
In Panama it falls on 8 December, coinciding with the Immaculate Conception, and it is a national holiday…
el Nazareno
The Black Christ image venerated in Portobelo, the focus of one of Panama's most intense popular devotions…
escudo de Panamá
The national coat of arms, adopted in 1904. An eagle holds in its beak a ribbon with the motto "Pro Mundi…
Feria de Azuero
The agricultural and popular fair held in La Villa de Los Santos each April or May. Cattle, crafts, concerts…
Festival de la Mejorana
The annual folklore gathering in Guararé, Los Santos, every September. It brings together ensembles…
flor del Espíritu Santo
A white orchid designated the national flower, whose center forms the shape of a dove with open wings. That…
gato solo
The coati: a long-snouted mammal with an upright tail that moves in troops and approaches people without…
guacamaya
A large, loud, brightly colored parrot. Coiba still has wild populations; in the city it is usually a pet…
guayacán
A tree that bursts into bloom in the dry season, leaving the hills blotched yellow for a few days. The…
Himno Nacional de Panamá
The republic's anthem, with lyrics by Jerónimo de la Ossa and music by Santos Jorge, a Spanish-born…
iguana
A large lizard that suns itself on roofs, fences and branches over water. In the countryside it is called…
junta de embarre
Collective country labor to raise a wattle-and-daub house: neighbors come for a full day to pack the walls…
la liga
The national baseball championship played by province, especially the youth division, which fills stadiums…
la Marea Roja
Nickname of Panama's national football team, after the color of its jersey and its fans. Qualifying for the…
la Sele
The national football team. The nickname caught on with the 2018 World Cup qualification, which brought the…
mola
A Guna textile made from layers of cloth cut and hand-stitched in reverse appliqué, with geometric or…
mono tití
A small, noisy monkey that moves in troops through the treetops. On the Canal islands and the Amador…
noveno
The last of the nine nights of the rezo, and the most attended. There is prayer, there is food, and the…
ñeque
A large forest rodent, cousin to the paca, seen crossing roads and even city parks. In some regions it is…
perezoso
The slow mammal that lives hanging from trees and in Panama turns up even on city avenues, crossing slowly…
pindín
The popular name for Panamanian accordion-based típico music. It started as a half-pejorative term used by…
plena
Panamanian urban genre born in the 1980s from the adaptation of Jamaican dancehall into Spanish, in…
quinceaños
A girl's fifteenth-birthday party, with a waltz, a long dress and sponsors who help pay for it. In Panama it…
quincha
A traditional building technique with a cane frame and walls of mud and straw, typical of the countryside…
rana dorada
A yellow amphibian endemic to Panama, a national symbol with its own day in August. It has not been found in…
reggae en español
The genre born in Panama in the 1980s when artists of Afro-Antillean descent began singing in Spanish over…
rezo
The nine nights of prayer at the family's house after a death, and by extension the whole gathering: the…
salinas de Aguadulce
The artisanal and industrial production of sea salt in the salt flats of the Coclé coast, one of the…
Semana Santa
Holy Week, when Catholics commemorate the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus, from Palm Sunday to…
tucán
The bird with the enormous, showy bill that you hear before you see.
velorio
The night the deceased is watched over before burial, with the family receiving visitors until dawn, coffee…
History
10 de noviembre de 1821
The day La Villa de Los Santos declared against the Spanish crown, moving ahead of the capital and pushing…
20 de diciembre
The anniversary of the 1989 invasion, declared a national day of mourning. It is not a celebration: it is a…
27 de febrero de 1852
The date of the official founding of the city of Colón, born on Manzanillo Island as the Atlantic terminus…
28 de noviembre de 1821
The date Panama became independent from Spain and chose to join Gran Colombia. It closes the month of…
3 de noviembre de 1903
The date Panama separated from Colombia, with U.S. backing tied to the Canal project. It is the main…
4 de noviembre
A holiday devoted to the flag, the coat of arms, and the anthem, the day after the separation holiday…
5 de noviembre de 1903
The date that commemorates the Consolidation of Panama's Separation from Colombia: the day the Colombian…
9 de enero
The date in 1964 when Panamanian students attempted to raise the national flag inside the Canal Zone…
ampliación del Canal
A third set of locks inaugurated in June 2016, approved by Panamanians in a 2006 referendum. It opened the…
Bayano
An enslaved African leader who rebelled in the sixteenth century and founded free maroon communities on the…
Canal de Panamá
The interoceanic waterway opened in 1914, under U.S. administration until December 31, 1999, when it passed…
Congreso Anfictiónico de 1826
A gathering convened by Simón Bolívar in Panama City to unite the newly independent American republics. It…
Día de la Etnia Negra
A commemoration celebrated every May 30th, established by law to recognize the Afro-descendant contribution…
el Mundial de 2018
Panama's first World Cup qualification, secured on 10 October 2017 at the Rommel Fernández stadium. The…
Ferrocarril de Panamá
Completed in 1855, it was the world's first interoceanic railroad. Driven by the California gold rush, it…
Guerra de Coto
A brief 1921 border conflict with Costa Rica over the Coto region, ended by U.S. diplomatic pressure with an…
Guerra de los Mil Días
A Colombian civil war from 1899 to 1902 that was also fought on the isthmus. It left the territory…
huelga inquilinaria de 1925
A mass protest in Panama City against abusive rents in tenement housing. It was put down with U.S. troop…
la invasión
The U.S. invasion of Panama launched on December 20, 1989 to remove Manuel Antonio Noriega. The civilian…
la reversión
The definitive handover of the Canal and the reverted areas to Panamanian control, at noon on December 31…
migración china
It began in the mid-nineteenth century with workers brought to build the railroad, and continued for…
Panamá no tiene ejército
After the 1989 invasion the Defense Forces were dissolved, and a 1994 constitutional reform banned a…
Papeles de Panamá
The 2016 leak of millions of documents from a Panamanian law firm, published by an international consortium…
Revolución Dule
The 1925 uprising of the Guna people against the imposition of foreign customs and pressure on their…
saqueo de Panamá Viejo
In 1671 the pirate Henry Morgan attacked the city, which ended up destroyed by fire. Two years later it was…
Tratado Hay–Bunau-Varilla
The treaty signed in November 1903 granting the United States control of the Canal strip "in perpetuity". It…
Tratado Remón-Eisenhower
A 1955 agreement that improved the economic terms of the original treaty and trimmed some Zone privileges…
Tratados Torrijos-Carter
Agreements signed on September 7, 1977 between Omar Torrijos and Jimmy Carter, setting the transfer of the…
United Fruit Company
The U.S. banana company that for decades organized life in Bocas del Toro and western Chiriquí: the towns…
Zona del Canal
A strip of territory roughly 8 km on either side of the Canal, administered by the United States from 1903…
Zona Libre de Colón
A free-trade zone established in 1948 in the city of Colón, the largest in the Western Hemisphere and among…
Places
Aguadulce
A city in Coclé known for its salt flats, shrimp farms and sugar mill. The sea pulls back so far at low tide…
Albrook
A reverted area of the former Canal Zone that today concentrates the national bus terminal, the Marcos A…
Antón
A district in Coclé known for its Black Christ, its fair, and for being the turnoff to El Valle. It is…
archipiélago de Las Perlas
A group of islands in the Gulf of Panama named for colonial-era pearl fishing. Contadora is the best known…
Arraiján
A district of Panamá Oeste on the far side of the Canal, home to many who work in the capital. The bridge…
avenida Balboa
The coastal avenue running along the bay, connecting the financial district to Casco Viejo. It is the city's…
Bocas del Toro
A Caribbean archipelago and province with a strong Afro-Antillean and Ngäbe presence, a banana history tied…
Boquete
A mountain town in Chiriquí known for its cool climate, its high-altitude coffee (including Geisha, among…
Calidonia
A dense commercial district of the capital, built around Avenida Central. It is where you buy cheap, haggle…
Calzada de Amador
A road built out over the sea linking the city to four islands at the Canal entrance, made from rock…
Camino de Cruces
The cobbled route by which the Spanish crossed the isthmus carrying Peruvian silver toward Portobelo…
carretera Panamericana
The highway crossing the country border to border, around which nearly all life in the interior is…
Casco Viejo
Panama City's historic center, founded in 1673 after the destruction of Panamá Viejo. A UNESCO World…
cerro Ancón
The hill overlooking the city, crowned by an oversized Panamanian flag. It lay inside the former Canal Zone…
Cerro Azul
A mountain east of Panama City, an hour from downtown, with cool weather and weekend homes. It is the…
Cerro Punta
A highland town in Chiriquí on the flanks of Barú, source of much of the country's vegetables and flowers…
Changuinola
A banana town in Bocas del Toro, on the mainland near the Costa Rican border. The banana company organized…
Chiriquí
A province in western Panama bordering Costa Rica. The country's main agricultural and cattle region, with a…
Chitré
Capital of Herrera and the main city of the Azuero Peninsula, the heartland of Panamanian folklore. A mass…
Cinta Costera
A linear park built over the sea along Panama Bay, with sports courts, a bike path and an expressway. Its…
Ciudad del Saber
A campus of universities, international organizations and companies set up on the former Fort Clayton…
Coclé
A central province with its capital at Penonomé. It produces the sombrero pintao of La Pintada, sugarcane…
Coiba
Panama's largest island, in the Pacific off Veraguas. It served as a penal colony from 1919 to 2004, which…
Colón
Panama's second city, at the Caribbean entrance of the Canal, founded in 1850 with the transisthmian…
comarca Emberá-Wounaan
An Indigenous comarca created in 1983 in Darién, the territory of the Emberá and Wounaan peoples. They are…
Coronado
A beach area in Panamá Oeste, a little over an hour from the capital, now the second-home destination for…
Costa del Este
A planned district of towers and wide avenues, built on reclaimed land at the water's edge where a landfill…
Darién
A jungle province bordering Colombia. The "Darién Gap" is the only break in the Pan-American Highway along…
David
Capital of Chiriquí and Panama's third city. The commercial and services hub for the entire west of the…
El Cangrejo
A Panama City neighborhood known for its nightlife, its density of restaurants and its large…
El Chorrillo
A working-class neighborhood of Panama City next to the Casco Antiguo. Partly built to house Canal workers…
El Copé
A mountain area in Coclé, above La Pintada, home to the national park from whose ridge both oceans are…
El Valle de Antón
A town in Coclé sitting inside the crater of an extinct volcano, a thousand meters up and cool year round…
esclusas de Miraflores
The Pacific-side locks of the Canal and their visitor center — the spot where nearly everyone who comes to…
Gamboa
A former Canal Zone town at the middle of the isthmus, where the Chagres River meets the Culebra Cut. Today…
Gatún
The artificial lake created by damming the Chagres River to build the Canal, and the Atlantic-side locks…
Guararé
A town in Los Santos where the National Mejorana Festival is held every September — Panama's largest…
Guna Yala
The autonomous indigenous comarca of the Guna people on the Caribbean coast, made up of a mainland strip and…
Herrera
A small interior province with its capital at Chitré. It concentrates cane, cattle and a density of fairs…
Instituto Nacional
Panama City's emblematic public high school, founded in 1909 and known as "the Eagles' Nest". Its students…
Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales
A research institution with a permanent base in Panama dating to the Canal construction era, devoted to the…
Isla Barro Colorado
An island formed when the Chagres valley was flooded to create Gatún Lake, now a Smithsonian research…
Isla Bastimentos
The second island of the Bocas archipelago, with a creole-speaking Afro-Antillean town, beaches on the open…
Isla Colón
The main island of the Bocas del Toro archipelago and seat of the provincial capital. Its wooden houses over…
Isla Grande
A small island off the Colón coast near Portobelo, home to an Afro-colonial community. It is a weekend…
Isla Iguana
A small island off Pedasí, in Los Santos, a wildlife refuge with a coral reef and one of the largest seabird…
La Chorrera
The capital of Panamá Oeste province and a commuter city for Panama City. It is famous for its chicheme…
La Pintada
A town in Coclé recognized as the main center for making the sombrero pintao, whose craftsmanship was…
la Transístmica
The road crossing the isthmus from Panama City to Colón, ocean to ocean in under two hours. Inside the…
La Villa de Los Santos
A town in Los Santos province where the First Cry of Independence was signed on November 10, 1821. Home to…
Las Tablas
The capital of Los Santos province, famous for hosting Panama's best-known Carnival, structured around the…
los corredores
The city's two main toll highways. The Corredor Sur runs along the bay toward Tocumen airport; the Corredor…
Los Santos
A province in the south of the Azuero peninsula, with its capital at Las Tablas. It is the heart of…
Mercado de Mariscos
Panama City's fish market, on the edge of the bay. Inside, you buy the day's catch; at the stalls next door…
Metro de Panamá
Central America's first metro system, opened in 2014. Line 1 connects Albrook with the north of the city…
MetroBus
The urban bus system that replaced the diablos rojos from 2010 onward, using a prepaid card shared with the…
Natá
A town in Coclé founded in 1522, one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements on the American…
Ngäbe-Buglé
A comarca created in 1997 from territory in Chiriquí, Bocas del Toro and Veraguas. Home to Panama's largest…
Ocú
A town in Herrera known for its craft traditions — the ocueño sombrero pintao and embroidered camisilla…
Panamá
The capital's province, home to nearly half the country. Note the name: Panamá is the country, the province…
Panamá Oeste
Panama's youngest province, created in 2014 when it split from Panamá province. Its capital is La Chorrera…
Panamá Viejo
The ruins of the original Panama City, founded in 1519 and destroyed in 1671 during the raid by the pirate…
Parita
A colonial town in Herrera with one of the best-preserved historic centers in the interior and a church with…
Pedasí
A fishing town at the southern tip of Los Santos, with quiet streets and low houses, now a beach destination…
Penonomé
The capital of Coclé province, midway between Panama City and the deep interior. An obligatory stop on the…
Pesé
A town in Herrera surrounded by sugarcane, home to the distillery that produces Seco Herrerano and Ron…
Playa Venao
A horseshoe beach in Los Santos with steady surf, which went from fishing cove to Panama's surf capital and…
Portobelo
A coastal town in Colón province, a key port of the Spanish empire where the fairs that moved Peruvian…
Puente Centenario
The second bridge over the Canal, opened in 2004 to relieve the Bridge of the Americas. Its name marks the…
Puente de las Américas
The 1962 bridge over the Pacific entrance of the Canal, the first land link between its two banks. "Crossing…
Puerto Armuelles
A port city at the western end of Chiriquí, on the Costa Rican border, built around banana exports. When the…
Punta Chame
A spit of land in Panamá Oeste that runs several kilometers into the Pacific, with steady wind through most…
Río Hato
A coastal town in Coclé that once hosted a large U.S. military base and now holds Scarlett Martínez…
Río Sereno
A border town in the Chiriquí highlands, a mountain crossing into Costa Rica and coffee-growing country. It…
San Carlos
A coastal district in Panamá Oeste that takes in many of the beaches of the dry arc closest to the capital…
San Miguelito
A populous district north of the capital with its own municipality, born of mid-twentieth-century urban…
Santa Ana
A historic Panama City neighborhood, cradle of the arrabal and of urban tamborito. Its park was for decades…
Santa Catalina
A fishing village on the Veraguas coast that became an internationally known surf break and the departure…
Santiago
The capital of Veraguas and the halfway stop on any long trip along the Panamericana. Anyone heading to…
Sarigua
A national park in Herrera that looks like a desert: cracked ground, no vegetation, salt on the surface. It…
Taboga
An island off the capital, under an hour by ferry, known as the island of flowers. It is the beach for…
Tapón del Darién
A stretch of jungle and swamp between Panama and Colombia, the only break in the Panamerican Highway between…
Tocumen
Tocumen International Airport, Panama's main air gateway and Copa Airlines' hub. It markets itself as "the…
Tumba Muerto
The popular name for Avenida Ricardo J. Alfaro, a main artery of Panama City. Almost nobody uses the…
Universidad de Panamá
The public university founded in 1935, with campuses in every province. Its grounds have been the stage for…
Veraguas
The only Panamanian province with coastline on both oceans, with its capital at Santiago. Its territory runs…
Vía España
A historic commercial avenue in Panama City, the axis of capital-city retail for decades before the rise of…
Volcán Barú
Panama's highest point, 3,475 meters, in Chiriquí province. On clear days both the Pacific Ocean and the…
Yaviza
A town in Darién where the Panamerican Highway ends. Beyond it you continue by dugout canoe or on foot: this…
People
Amelia Denis de Icaza
A nineteenth-century Panamanian poet, considered the first female voice in the national literature. Her poem…
Arnulfo Arias
Elected president three times and overthrown each time, founder of panameñismo and the most divisive figure…
Belisario Porras
President across three terms between 1912 and 1924, regarded as the builder of the modern Panamanian state…
Carlos Eleta Almarán
The Panamanian composer of "Historia de un amor", one of the most recorded boleros in history in any…
Clara González
Panama's first woman lawyer and a central figure in the fight for women's suffrage, which the country…
Danilo Pérez
Panamanian jazz pianist and composer born in 1965, a member of the Wayne Shorter Quartet and founder of the…
El General
Stage name of Edgardo Franco, Panamanian pioneer of Spanish-language reggae. His 1990s hits — "Tu Pum Pum"…
Guillermo Trujillo
A Panamanian painter and ceramicist, among the country's most recognized visual artists of the twentieth…
Irving Saladino
A long jumper from Colón who won Panama's first Olympic gold medal in Beijing 2008. The whole country…
Justo Arosemena
A nineteenth-century jurist and thinker who drove the creation of the Federal State of Panama within…
Manuel Amador Guerrero
Panama's first president, from 1904 to 1908, and a central figure in the separation from Colombia. A…
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Panamanian military officer (1934-2017), the country's strongman between 1983 and 1989. He was removed by…
Mariano Rivera
Panamanian baseball player born in Puerto Caimito in 1969, the New York Yankees' legendary closer and…
Mireya Moscoso
Panama's first woman president, from 1999 to 2004. It fell to her to receive the Canal from the United…
Nando Boom
Fernando Orlando Brown. A Panamanian pioneer of Spanish-language reggae in the late eighties and early…
Omar Torrijos
Panamanian military and political leader (1929-1981), de facto ruler from 1968. He negotiated the treaties…
Pedro Altamiranda
A Panamanian composer known for satirical Carnival songs that mocked the scandals and figures of his day…
Ricardo J. Alfaro
A Panamanian jurist, diplomat and president with a notable role in international law in the first half of…
Ricardo Miró
An early twentieth-century Panamanian poet, author of the patriotic poem most recited in the country's…
Roberto Durán
Panamanian boxer born in 1951 in El Chorrillo, a world champion across four weight classes and considered…
Rod Carew
Panamanian baseball player born in Gatún, Colón province, in 1945. A seven-time Major League batting…
Rogelio Sinán
The pen name of the writer who brought the avant-garde into twentieth-century Panamanian literature. Born on…
Rubén Blades
Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor and lawyer born in 1948. A central figure in socially conscious salsa…
Samy y Sandra Sandoval
A brother-and-sister duo who took típico music to big stages and national radio. At any interior fair, their…
Sech
A Panamanian urban music artist, among the country's most internationally visible since 2019. His success…
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
The Spanish conquistador who crossed the isthmus in 1513 and sighted the Pacific from American land. He was…
Victoriano Lorenzo
A peasant and Indigenous leader from Coclé who fought in the War of a Thousand Days at the head of his own…
Bureaucracy
120 a los 65
A monthly transfer program for older adults without a pension. It began as "100 a los 70" and has changed in…
ACP
Autoridad del Canal de Panamá (Panama Canal Authority). The autonomous authority that has run the Canal…
AMPYME
Autoridad de la Micro, Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Authority). The…
Asamblea Nacional
Panama's single-chamber legislature, housed in the Justo Arosemena Palace. Its deputies are elected by…
ATP
Autoridad de Turismo de Panamá (Panama Tourism Authority). The agency that promotes tourism and registers…
ATTT
La Autoridad del Tránsito y Transporte Terrestre (Transit and Land Transportation Authority). the Panamanian…
Banco Nacional de Panamá
The state bank through which much of the country's public money flows: government payroll, pensions and…
Beca Universal
A state stipend for public and private school students, administered by IFARHU and conditional on keeping up…
Caja de Ahorros
The state savings and loan bank, closely tied to mortgages and personal loans for public employees. Not to…
Clave
The national ATM and debit-card payment network. "Pagar con Clave" means paying by debit, and the brand name…
Corte Suprema de Justicia
The country's highest court, divided into chambers by subject. Its justices are appointed by the executive…
Crisol de Razas
A migratory regularization program through which thousands of foreigners obtained residency in Panama, run…
Cuerpo de Bomberos
A long-established Panamanian institution with a strong volunteer component. Beyond fighting fires, it…
dengue
A disease spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, endemic in Panama with seasonal outbreaks during the rainy…
DGI
Dirección General de Ingresos (General Directorate of Revenue). Panama's tax authority, under the Ministry…
el APC
Panama's credit bureau. "Estar en el APC" means having a negative record, and one unpaid phone bill can sink…
el Seguro
The Social Security Fund, the institution that administers health care and pensions in Panama. Its financial…
farmacia de turno
The pharmacy that by rotation stays open at night, on Sundays and holidays in each district. The rota is…
fumigación
Mosquito spraying carried out by the Health Ministry through the neighborhoods, house by house or from a…
Hospital Santo Tomás
The country's main public hospital, in Panama City, open to anyone without social security coverage. For…
IDAAN
Instituto de Acueductos y Alcantarillados Nacionales (National Water and Sewerage Institute). The state…
INEC
The national statistics office, part of the Comptroller General. It produces the census, employment figures…
Lotería Nacional
The state institution that has drawn lottery tickets twice a week, Wednesdays and Sundays, since 1919. It…
MEDUCA
The Ministry of Education, which sets the school calendar, the curriculum and school accreditation. Panama's…
MIDA
The agriculture ministry, regulating production, food imports and farmer support. Its import-quota decisions…
MIDES
The ministry in charge of social assistance programs: transfers to households, older adults and people with…
MINSA
The Ministry of Health, which serves the uninsured population and regulates everything sanitary. It coexists…
MITRADEL
Ministerio de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral (Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development). The ministry in…
MIVIOT
The ministry of housing and land-use planning. It runs housing subsidy programs and land-use permits, two…
planilla 172
The common name for the state's discretionary payroll, paid outside the conditions of a regular post. It is…
policlínica
A Social Security clinic handling everyday care: general consultation, lab work, pharmacy. Getting an…
Registro Público
The institution where property, corporations and legal acts are recorded in Panama. Checking the Registro…
SENAFRONT
The civilian service that guards the borders, above all Darién. It handles the migration flow through the…
SINAPROC
The national civil protection system, responsible for alerts and emergencies. During the rainy season its…
Tribunal Electoral
The autonomous body that runs elections and administers Panama's civil registry: births, marriages, deaths…
Yappy
Banco General's mobile payment platform, in mass use across Panama. It has become a verb: "yappéame" means…