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Panama is a small country located in the extreme south of the continent from Central America, connecting to the north with Costa Rica and with Colombia to the south. Panama has its beaches bathed both by the ocean Pacific (to the west) and the Caribbean Sea (to the east) and is therefore an important tourist destination since it offers two different geographical areas and just as wonderful. However, despite the important development that the tourism, Panama is recognized internationally mainly for being the passage that allows you to cross the American continent from east to west without having to go all the way around it. The Panama Canal is one of the few steps that allow this crossing and therefore a significant number of ships cross this area for commercial purposes.

Panama is a very small country in terms of area: it has only 75 thousand five hundred square kilometers, while its population it barely exceeds three million inhabitants. Among them, the descendants of Spaniards and aborigines (or, in other words, mestizos) are the most important ethnic group, followed by blacks, Europeans and Asians.

Due to its location, Panama has always been a place of great interest to world powers that sought to dominate this geographic region to control the Commerce and the passage of ships from one side to the other. Today, the country is a democracy that has a government constitutional republican. Administratively, the territory It is divided into nine provinces: Chiriquí, Veraguas, Panama, Los Santos, Herrera, Coclé, Darién, Bocas del Toro and Colón. Its capital and most important urban center is the city of Panama, located in the province of Panama.

Because of his weather Tropical that combines temperate to warm temperatures with little variation between seasons, Panama is a paradise for those tourists looking for a refuge from colder climates as well as beautiful beaches bordered by warm and calm waters such as those of the Caribbean Sea or those of the Pacific Ocean.