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24 unusual facts about Panamá


Carlos Ward

Carlos Ward (born May 1, 1940 in Ancón, Panama) is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.

Chepo expedition

Sailing up the Mandingua River, the expedition crossed the Isthmus of Panama into the Pacific where they raided shipping for several months as well as looting and then burning the town of Chepo, Panama.

Congolese music

In Panama and Colombia, there is an Afro-Caribbean genre of music called Congo music.

Economy of Panama

In Panama City there are six highways: the Panama-Arraijan Bridge of the Americas, Panama-Arraijan Centennial Bridge, Arraijan-Chorrera, Corredor Norte, Corredor Sur, and Autopista Alberto Motta.

Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin

Subsequently, he visited several other islands of the Antilles, eventually relocating as a physician to Santa Marta, Panama (1848), from where he studied the natural history of the isthmus, sending his plant specimens to Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, a botanist in Berlin (these specimens later became the property of August Grisebach).

El Cristo

According to studies by the archaeologist Cook, this community is similar to the pre-Columbian site of the Sierra at the edge of Santa Maria.

General Aircraft Cygnet

After being repaired and being flown for several years, it was landed at a short airstrip in Colón and was unable to depart therefrom.

Japanese cruiser Asama

The following year, the Asama made a shorter cruise to Acapulco, Balboa, San Francisco, and Vancouver.

Jon Snodgrass

Jon Snodgrass is a Panamanian author, born on July 27, 1941 in Colón, Panama to John Alphonso and Olivia Jane (Chestnut) Snodgrass.

José Agustín Arango

José Agustín Arango Remon (1841–1909) was a Panamanian politician who was, together with Tomás Arias and Federico Boyd, a member of the provisional junta that governed Panama after its independence in 1903.

José Parrilla

José Parrilla (born 31 March 1972 in Ancón, Panama) is an American middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 meters.

Julio Segundo

Julio Manuel Segundo Ríos (born 26 September 1993 in La Chorrera) is a Panamian footballer, who plays for Veria F.C. in the Superleague Greece as a midfielder.

Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

Typically composed of a smooth, suspended metal shell encasing an interior clapper, the West Mexican bells were generally fashioned from copper alloys and bore particular resemblance to bells made in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.

MS West Grama

In March 1930, the Los Angeles Times reported that West Grama was en route from Balboa to San Francisco.

Operation Sand Flea

Operation Sand Flea was a series of training exercises for the December 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States.

Panamanian spiny pocket mouse

Panamanian spiny pocket mice are found only in southern and western Panama, along the Pacific coast between David and Chepo, and inland as far as the headwaters of rivers flowing into the Atlantic.

Republican Party presidential primaries

Ronald Reagan led the conservative wing of the party in condemning Ford's foreign policy in Vietnam, Eastern Europe and Panama.

Robert S. Doran

He served as a Special Forces Instructor at the US Army Jungle Survival Center at Fort Sherman in Colón, Panama.

Robin Lee Graham

After spending Christmas and New Year's Day in Cristobal in the Canal Zone, Return of Dove sailed through the Panama Canal with both Robin and Patti aboard (so Robin ended up not completing his entire journey alone) and reached Balboa on January 17, 1970.

SS Central America

On 3 September 1857, 477 passengers and 101 crew left the Panamanian port of Colón, sailing for New York City under the command of William Lewis Herndon.

Stephen P. Hubbell

Dr. Hubbell is also a senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama.

Transport in Panama

In Panama City are 6 highways working being that the Panama--Arraijan Bridge of the Americas, Panama-Arraijan Centennial Bridge, Arraijan-Chorrera, Corredor Norte, Corredor Sur, and Autopista Alberto Motta

United States Air Forces Southern Command

The first United States air units arrived in the Canal Zone in February 1917, with the 7th Aero Squadron being organized on 29 March at Ancon.

William B. Van Ingen

They are mounted in the Panama Canal Administration Building in Balboa, Panama.


1960 Caribbean Series

The XII edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was a baseball tournament held from February 10 through February 15, 1960 featuring the champion teams from Cuba (Cienfuegos), Panama (Marlboro), Puerto Rico (Caguas) and Venezuela (Rapiños).

Albert Falvey Webster

He was consumptive and went to California by way of the isthmus of Panama, and died on his way from San Francisco to Honolulu, and was buried in the Pacific.

Alotenango

Capetillo coffee was awarded the only Grand Prize for Coffee at the 1915 Universal Exhibition.

Andy Egert

He has also performed live in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania, the United States, Poland and Panama, under his own name or in collaborations with blues singers such as Bob Stroger, Robert Lucas and Dallas Hodge.

Azuero spider monkey

The Azuero subspecies is one of three types of spider monkeys in Panama; Ateles geoffroyi panamensis with a range spanning from Costa Rica to Darién excluding the Azuero, Ateles geoffroyi fusciceps, with a range spanning Panamá and Colón provinces, and Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis, the Azuero spider monkey, whose range encompasses only the Azuero Peninsula.

Black-crowned Central American squirrel monkey

Its range is restricted to the Pacific coast of western Panama to the western portion of the Chiriquí Province and of southern Costa Rica, south of the Rio Grande de Terraba, including the Osa Peninsula.

Bothriechis lateralis

Found in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, including the Cordillera de Tilarán, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca to the provinces of Chiriquí Province and Veraguas.

Conservation Strategy Fund

Some notable achievements include helping to establish 1.5 million acres of protected area in central Brazil, helping local people divert the construction of a road through Volcán Barú National Park in Panama, successfully preventing construction of a dam that would have flooded significant portions of Madidi National Park in Bolivia, and delaying the paving of highway BR-319 in the Brazilian Amazon which, without proper safeguards, could have inflicted harm on the world's largest rainforest.

Copa Rommel Fernández

West Panama includes the districts that are over the Bridge of the Americas (Arraiján, La Chorrera, Chame and San Carlos).

Development of a Bottle in Space

Once exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (1915), Development of a Bottle in Space, has since become part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro II (1520–1542), known as El Mozo (The Lad), son of Diego de Almagro I, whose mother was an Indian girl of Panama, became the foil of the conspirators who had put Pizarro to the sword.

Eddy Lover discography

The discography of Eddy Lover, a Panamanian reggaeton and Reggae en Español artist, consists of two studio albums and four singles (including all singles from studio, compilation albums and collaborations with other singers).

Edén Pastora

After negotiating a USD $500,000 deal with Somoza and Cardinal Miguel Obando, Pastora, Ortega and other released prisoners left for Cuba, where he claimed to have been a "prisoner" lavished with women and luxury, but not allowed to leave the country until Martín Torrijos, the son of then Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and Pastora's personal friend, voiced his concern and went to Cuba to rescue him personally.

Estadio Nacional de Panamá

Some of the artists that have performed in the Estadio Nacional de Panama include Back Street Boys, Christina Aguilera, Sting, Enrique Iglesias, Soda Stereo, and Ruben Blades.

Eusebio Pedroza

Pedroza won three fights in 1977, two by knockout, and then, on April 1978, the WBA featherweight champion, Cecilio Lastra of Spain, travelled to Panama to defend his title on April 18 against Pedroza, who knocked him out in round 13 to become world featherweight champion.

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerón, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama

George H. Cobb

He was a member of the Nw York State Commsission for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.

Giosue Cozzarelli

Afterwards, she was chosen as one of the Top 10 contestants in the reality show Señorita Panamá Realmente Bella, a beauty pageant that selected local winners to represent Panama in the Miss Universe and Miss World competitions.

Heckler v. Campbell

Ms. Campbell had been born in Panama, and though she had limited ability to speak and write English, she could read and understand English fairly well.

Heteromysis actiniae

The anemone mysid is found living in association with the sea anemone Bartholomea annulata in the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern coasts of Mexico and Panama down to a depth of a few metres (yards).

India–Panama relations

Also, cooperation over IT & E-Governance, cyber security and training, and Indian space agency ISRO's proposed TTC station in Panama were discussed.

Irving Berry

Irving Berry (born 11 January 1986 in Panama City, Panama) is a featherweight boxer from Panama and is the second ranked featherweight for the WBA championship.

Jacob C. Bogart

After a steady stream of people started to travel to San Francisco from Panama during the California Gold Rush, a coaling station was set up in San Diego.

John Sleightholme

In March 2009, Sleightholme gave evidence in the court case against Jeremy Keith, Murdo Mackay, Derby County's former finance director Andrew MacKenzie, accountant Mark Waters and solicitor David Lowe who were all charged in relation to a fraud allegation centred on a loan from a Panama-based company that effectively saved Derby County after their relegation from the Premiership.

José Dimas Cedeño Delgado

Benedict appointed one of the Archbishop's Auxiliary Bishops, Bishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., to serve as the next Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama.

Joyce Jacobi

Jacobi represent Panamá in the Miss International 2009 in Chengdu, China finals was held on November 28, 2009 at Sichuan International Tennis Center, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

Juan Mauricio Wurmser

His years as a corporate marketing executive include early assignments with the Guatemala subsidiaries of Warner Lambert, Avon, and Colgate-Palmolive, before joining British American Tobacco in 1978, a company that he served for 15 years in Guatemala, Panama, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina before returning to Guatemala as President and General Manager of its local subsidiary.

Linda Bement

In 1962 she married the Panamanian-born future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racing jockey, Manuel Ycaza.

Lummis Day

The first event, on Sunday, June 4, 2006, featured East L.A. rock band Quinto Sol, musician Severin Browne, Ann Likes Red, Cuban-born musician Juan Carlos Formell, Danza Azteca Cuahtlehuanitl, the Tongva-Gabrielino Native American Dancers, Pilipino folk ensemble Panama Rondalla and poets B. H. Fairchild, William Archila and Suzanne Lummis.

Manuel Espinosa Batista

On December 16, 1924, the National Assembly of Panama, passed a law to commission a bronze bust sculpture of Manuel Espinosa Batista with the legend "Founder of the Republic", together with other busts of José Agustín Arango, Tomás Arias and Federico Boyd, members of the Provisional Government Junta and the bust of Manuel Amador Guerrero, the first President of the Republic of Panama.

Miss Colombia 2008

The former panel of judges was composed by Olga Sinclair (Panama), Pablo Jiménez Burillo (Spain), Sylvia Loria (Costa Rica), Thomas P. Murray (United States), Giovanni Scutaro (Venezuela).

Multidata Systems International

A software product of the company was involved in an accidental overexposure of patients in Panama in 2001 when the treatment planning software RTP/2 (vers. 2.11, 1991) reportedly contributed to 28 patients receiving excessive amounts of radiation at the Instituto Oncologico Nacional in Panama City.

MV C.O. Stillman

She underwent repairs at Rotterdam and then on 24 March 1937 her new owner transferred her registration from Britain to the Panamanian flag of convenience.

Nicolás Muñoz

Nicolás Armando Muñoz Jarvis (born 21 December 1981 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian footballer who currently plays for Isidro Metapan in the First Division of El Salvador.

Orchid hunting

Tom Hart Dyke, a plant hunter who follows the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian orchid hunters, was held in 2000 by kidnappers thought to be FARC guerillas in the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, while hunting for rare orchids, a plant for which he has a particular passion.

Panama hake

The Panama hake (Merluccius angustimanus) is a merluccid hake of the genus Merluccius, found off the west coast of the Americas from Del Mar, California, to Ensenada de Tumaco, Colombia.

Panamá Province

The governor of the province is Omaira "Mayín" Correa, a former mayor of Panama City and appointed by President Martinelli after he was sworn in on July 1, 2009.

Pelliciera

Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

While there are disagreements about where the “narrow neck of land” resides, e.g. southern Mexico, Honduras, the Isthmus of Rivas between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Panama, the following list of theories can all be categorized as Central American based.

Purple Storm

Operation Purple Storm, a series of US Military exercises in Panama in 1989

Rodrigo de Bastidas

Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460 – July 28, 1527) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the city of Santa Marta.

Señorita Panamá 1991

The pageant was broadcast live on RPC Panamá and produced with the collaboration of Venevision.

Sonny White

Ellerton Oswald White (November 11, 1917, Panama City, Panama - April 28, 1971, New York City), better known as Sonny White, was a jazz pianist.

Spanish maravedí

By 1531 these coins were still being minted, by now in both Seville and Burgos, and subsequent shipments have been confirmed to other areas such as: Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico.

SS Beljeanne

In March 1964, Beljeanne was sold to Bacong Shipping Co SA, Panama City, Panama and renamed Southern Cross.

Stewart, British Columbia

The area around the Portland Canal was again explored in 1896 by Captain D.D. Gaillard of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (after whom the Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal was later named).

The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut

At the same time, the construction of the Panama Canal is underway as a joint operation between Panama and the United States, and President Theodore Roosevelt has personally come to inspect the construction of the Culebra Cut.

Thomas Whetstone

His forces seized the Spanish-held Providence Island in 1666, but the Spanish retook the island and sent Whetstone, in chains, to Panama.

WECP-LD

callsign meaning = ECP (IATA code for Panama City airport