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	Provinces of Costa Rica Alajuela, Heredia, San José, San Jose, Puntarenas, Guanacaste, Limón, Limon and Cartago
		Liberia is the Capital of this hot and dry Province with the peninsula Nicoya to the south and bordering Nicaragua to the north.
		The name of the Province comes from a Lemon Tree that was found in front of the governor's office which was unique of its class.
		It is also the most important province for tourism, stretching all way from the beach towns of Mal País, Montezuma, Tambor on the Nicoya Peninsula to Panama with an endless variety of large undisturbed beaches and breathtaking sunsets.
	www.1-costaricalink.com /costa_rica_provinces.htm (1049 words)

	Panama
		Panama is the southernmost country in the continent of North America.
		Panama is a representative democracy with three branches of government: executive and legislative branches elected by direct vote for 5-year terms, and an independently appointed judiciary.
		Panama in located in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Colombia and Costa Rica.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Panama.html (349 words)

	PANAMA,
		Panama Canal, is bounded on the N by the Caribbean Sea, on the E by Colombia, on the S by the Pacific Ocean, and on the W by Costa Rica.
		The population of Panama is mainly mestizo (mixed Indian and white ancestry) or mulatto (mixed white and fl ancestry), and the remainder are of Indian, Asian, fl African, or white descent.
		The population of Panama (1990 census) was 2,329,329.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=218545 (3899 words)

	Coiba Island Panama
		Eighty-five percent of the forests of Coiba Island are primary and almost untouched, serving as a haven for birds and mammals found nowhere else on Earth, as well as for species that have largely disappeared from the mainland.
		The remarkable preservation of Coiba Island is largely due to its use as a penal colony since 1920 - the prisoners have served as a strong deterrent to colonization by peasants and to the extraction of the island's abundant resources.
		Panama's National Authority of the Environment (known as ANAM) does not have the resources to protect a park of this size, particularly one that is 26 kilometers from one of Panama's most impoverished provinces.
	www.panama1.com /coiba.php (1054 words)

	Political and Economic History of Panama
		Panama was annexed as a province of what later became the nation of Colombia.
		Panama remained under the control of the government in Bogota until the early years of the twentieth century, although there were numerous attempts at secession.
		The Panama route was shorter and would involve fewer locks but a surprising factor was the absence of volcanoes in Panama as compared to eight volcanoes considered active in Nicaragua.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/panama.htm (1496 words)

	Moon Travel Planner: Panama: The Regions
		The building of the Panama Canal was the great engineering feat of its era, and the canal is still one of the wonders of the modern world.
		The jewel in the crown is gigantic Isla Coiba, the largest island in Panama and one as fabled for its Devil’s Island–style penal colony as for the superabundant marine life that surrounds it.
		Panama’s hottest tourist destination, the Bocas archipelago is a bohemian playground of white-sand beaches, big surf, frolicking dolphins, pristine coral reefs, and unusual creatures, including a bewildering array of tiny jewel-toned frogs.
	www.moon.com /planner/panama/pan_regions.html (1155 words)

	Peace Corps \| Learn About Peace Corps \| Where Does Peace Corps Work? \| Central America and Mexico \| Panama
		Panama has two coastlines, the Caribbean Sea to the north and Pacific Ocean to the south, and borders Colombia to the east and Costa Rica to the west.
		Although nearly 40 percent of Panama is still wooded, poor management of natural resources has caused deforestation, erosion, pollution, loss of biological diversity, and the degradation of coastal and marine systems.
		The Peace Corps program in Panama contributes to improvements in the quality of life of low-income families and environmental conditions by promoting environmental education in primary and junior high schools, introducing sustainable agriculture techniques to rural farmers, and working with coastal fishermen and indigenous communities on marine resource conservation and waste management.
	www.peacecorps.gov /index.cfm?shell=learn.wherepc.LatinAmerica.panama (410 words)

	Panama - ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE ECONOMY
		In 1968 economic activity was heavily concentrated in the two provinces of Panamá and Colón, which accounted for over two-thirds of GDP, and an even larger share of the country's manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, and communications.
		In effect, Panama's money supply was determined by the balance of payments, by movements in interest rates, and by the United States, which controlled the number of dollars available for the country's international transactions.
		Panama's financial stability and international credit standing were determined not by monetary policy, but principally by fiscal policy and balance of payments.
	countrystudies.us /panama/43.htm (1347 words)

	Panama - Gurupedia
		Panama (Spanish: Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America.
		Panama was part of the Spain's colonies in America until 1821 when it seceded and joined the
		Indeed much of Panama's domestic politics and international diplomacy in the 20th century was tied to the Panama Canal.
	www.gurupedia.com /p/pa/panama.htm (737 words)

	Panama (10/06)
		Panama is a member of the UN General Assembly and most major UN agencies and has served three terms as a member of the UN Security Council.
		Panama is a member of the Organization of American States and was a founding member of the Rio Group.
		Panama also is one of the founding members of the Union of Banana Exporting Countries and belongs to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2030.htm (3313 words)

	Panama Offshore
		Panama City (on Gulf of Panama) is the capital of the republic.
		Panama City is linked by major scheduled airlines, through regular daily flights, with the principle cities of North, Central and South America, Europe and the Far East.
		Panama's corporation law is among the most liberal in the world and have remained practically unchanged since 1927, modelled after the Delaware Corporation Law.
	www.firstadvisor.com /panama.htm (1933 words)

	Lawyer Panama legal services, Panama maritime registration
		Panama is the southernmost country of Central America.
		Though Panama has the highest GDP per capita in Central America, about 40% of its population lives in poverty.
		Panama's political divisions are 9 provinces (Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui, Cocle, Colon, Darien, Herrera, Los Santos, Panama, Veraguas), 75 districts or municipalities, 5 indigenous comarcas, and 620 "corregimientos." Panama is divided into 9 provinces (provincias) and 3 provincial-level indigenous territories (comarcas indígenas).
	www.abogadopanama.com /about_panama.htm (270 words)

	Panama
		For canal rights in perpetuity, the U.S. paid Panama $10 million and agreed to pay $250,000 each year, which was increased to $430,000 in 1933, and to $1,930,000 in 1955.
		In Dec. 1989, 24,000 U.S. troops seized control of Panama City in an attempt to capture Noriega after a U.S. soldier was killed in Panama.
		Panama's economy is based primarily on a well-developed services area that accounts for three-fourths of GDP.
	www.questconnect.org /ca_panama.htm (827 words)

	PC-10.5 (Vn Decimo of 1962)
		Panama's coat of arms is divided into two cantons at the top, two cantons at the bottom and a double wide canton in the center.
		The center canton shows land (the isthmus of Panama) between two oceans (the Atlantic and Pacific) with a sea level canal between the oceans.
		Above the eagle are nine stars representing the nine provinces of Panamá.
	www.coins-of-panama.com /coins/pc10-5.html (762 words)

	Panama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much of Panama's domestic politics and international diplomacy in the twentieth century was tied to the Panama Canal and the foreign policy of the United States.
		Panama's politics takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Panama is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		*Panama ·** Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago* · Uruguay · Venezuela
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panama (2249 words)

	Country Narrative - Panama
		Panama is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation.
		Panama’s 2004 anti-trafficking law focuses on commercial sexual exploitation and assigns penalties of five to 10 years in prison.
		Eight Panamanian National Police officers in Darien Province remained under investigation subsequent to their arrest in March 2005 for rape, commercial sexual exploitation, and corruption of minors.
	gvnet.com /humantrafficking/Panama-2.htm (687 words)

	Panama travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Panama [1] is a country in Central America with coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, with Colombia (and South America) to the southeast and Costa Rica (and North America) to the northwest.
		With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone).
		The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama by or on 31 December 1999.
	wikitravel.org /en/Panama (4424 words)

	PanamArts
		Panama's geographic position, as well as several historic peculiarities, are the reason that several human groups co-exist in the Isthmus.
		In Panama and Colon, it is strongly mixed with colonial-origin afro groups.
		Their culture is characteristic of urban and rural areas and may be called the "panamanian culture" towards which all the other groups seems to be integrating.
	panamarts.com /newsdesk_info.php/newsdesk_id/5 (453 words)

	Visit to Panama
		Sir Henry Morgan and Francis Drake was pirates during the traveling of gold and silver from Bolivia and Peru lay heaped in the streets of Portobelo, waiting the teasure fleet to Spain.
		The city of Penonomé, capital of Coclé province can serve as a center from which visitors can discover some interesting sites, including the town of La Pintada, known for the famous "Sombrero Pintado" hats, which are an important element of the owr national costume for men.
		The San Blas islands stretch along approximately 200 miles of Panama's Cariggean coastline and San Blas territory is defined from the seaward continental shelf to the top of the jungle-clad continental divide some miles inland.
	www.geocities.com /hp5ajj/panama1.htm (1832 words)

	Panama Page travel retirement Panama
		Panama is located in Central America between 7° and 10° north of the Equator, with Costa Rica to the northwest and Colombia to the southeast.
		Panama actually runs west to east, with the Caribbean on the north and the Pacific Ocean on the south.
		The larger expat communities are in Panama City, Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean coast, Boquete and Volcan in the highlands in Chiriquí; Province, and El Valle in the highlands outside Panama City.
	www.boomersabroad.com /panama.html (1839 words)

	Indigenous Heritage
		The Bribri live in the province of Bocas del Toro near the Sixaola River and its tributary the Yorkin River.
		They inhabit the province of Bocas del Toro, in the forests bordering the Teribe River, a larger tributary of the Río Changuinola.
		Near the town of Tolé, in the Chiriquí; province, the Ngwobe have set up small shacks along the Pan-American Highway to sell their handicrafts: colorful dresses and the Chaquira, a necklace worn by men and woven with strings of fine beads.
	www.vivapanama.org /THEINDIANHERITAGE.htm (1389 words)

	Panama Flag - World Flags 101 - panamanian Flags
		Panama was a colony of Spain from the 16th century until 1821, when independence was achieved.
		Panama gained independence from Colombia on Nov. 3, 1903, with encouragement and military support from the United States.
		The Panama Canal, the land it is built on and the area surrounding it is leased to the U.S. and comes under direct United States control.
	www.worldflags101.com /p/panama-flag.aspx (322 words)

	Panama Provinces
		La Prensa reported on 2002-01-20 that there were moves under way to split a new province of Panamá; Oeste (West Panama) from the existing Panamá; province, and to split a new comarca from Bocas del Toro province for the benefit of the Naso-teribe ethnic group.
		Panama was a department of Colombia in 1900.
		The provinces of Panama are divided into municipal districts, which are further subdivided into corregimientos.
	www.statoids.com /upa.html (558 words)

	Panama Travel - Offering Discounted Air Fares And Travel Cruises
		According to scientists at the University of Panama and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute the elevation of the basaltic rock that forms the pictoresque cliffs contributes to species richness of both flora and fauna.
		Students and Faculty from the University of Panama have developed an interpretive nature trail that is both fun and educational.
		This is Panama's "desert." Though not a desert in strict ecological terms [Sarigua receives more than a meter of rain each year], the salt pans, the wind-blown sand, and cacti all evoke the image of "death valley." In fact, Sarigua is a lesson in the peril of poor land management.
	www.panamatravel.com /natparks.htm (2156 words)

	US State Department report on human rights in Panama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Panama, a representative democracy with an elected executive composed of a president and two vice presidents, has a population of approximately 3 million.
		The Association of New Men and Women of Panama alleged that prison authorities denied two requests by the organization during the year to conduct AIDS education and training in prisons.
		Panama City's building code requires that all new construction projects meant to serve the public be accessible to persons with disabilities, with fines for the public sector from $100 (100 balboas) to $500 (500 balboas) for noncompliance.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_12/issue_06/opinion_01.html (9596 words)

	Intercountry Adoption Panama
		PLEASE NOTE: In cases where the U.S. citizen is a resident of Panama and has an interest in filing a petition locally,the Department of Homeland Security in Panama is the first point of contact for an international adoption.
		ADOPTION AUTHORITY IN PANAMA: The government offices responsible for adoptions in Panama are the two major courts, the "Juzgado de la Niñez y Adolescencia" (Children and Minors' Court) and "Juzgados Seccionales de Familia" (Family Courts).
		A judge must approve the departure of a child from Panama if the child is leaving without the child's birth parent(s) or legal guardian.
	travel.state.gov /family/adoption_panama.html (1994 words)

	Provinces.html
		There are a total of nine provinces in Panama, plus the territory of San Blass, each with their own tropical characteristics and history.
		To the east of Chiriquiis the province of Veraguas.
		It's the smallest of all the provinces of the isthmus.
	www.cnr.edu /home/estern/webclass/dhudson/provinces.html (1362 words)

	Province of Cocle, Panama
		It borders with Panama on the East, Colon on the North, Veraguas on the West, Herrera on the South West and the Pacific Ocean on the South.
		It was then promoted to Province on October 20, 1885 and it remained so when Panama separated from the Great Columbia to become a republic.
		After the city of Panama (nowadays Panama La Vieja) was destroyed by pirate Henry Morgan, Penonome served as the capital of Panama during the year 1671 until the new capital was founded (now known as Casco Viejo in Panama city).
	www.coralys.com /panama/Default.aspx?id=Cocle (849 words)

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