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Thousands of people used to cross the Darién Gap every day. Emerging from the rainforest, they would stop in small towns ...
Darién National Park covers around 575,000 hectares, or 1.42 million acres, of rainforest at Panama’s southern border with ...
PANAMA CITY — Roughly 50,000 migrants crossed the treacherous Darien Gap linking Colombia and Panama in the first two months of 2023, five times more than in the same period last year, according ...
Panama has suspended constitutional protections for five days in its northwestern Bocas del Toro province after two months of ...
The Darién Gap, a perilous journey for millions of migrants, has also become a corridor for the northward spread of the New ...
In January 2025, only 2,158 migrants entered Panama through the Darién, a 94% drop from the previous year. At least 55 migrants died in 2024, though the real number is likely higher due to the ...
Panama and Venezuela will restore consular services in each other's countries in the coming days nearly a year after Panama suspended them following questionable Venezuelan elections that ...
Great Island in Darien, Conn., photographed on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Under proposed changes to it's harbor ordinances, Darien intends to create a new "slow no wake" zone at Ziegler's Cove near ...
Panama’s new president promises to stop migration through Darien Gap José Raúl Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama’s next president, facing pressure to slow irregular migration through the ...
It’s almost like a ropes course,” Panama City Kiwanis Club Secretary Eric Krebs. The $145,000 dollar project includes a towering 20-foot playground with slides, a giant swing and even a drum set.