Name: Geography Now! PANAMA
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T17:22:41.000Z
Duration: 15 min 59 s
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Panama is kind of like, Come on, an Iman.

You're the cool one lets districts joint, but I'm kind of one of them.

Barbs, Panama, The country that links the north and south, the gateway between two worlds and two oceans.

This little sliver of land has and still plays such a powerful role in the entire Western Hemisphere.

Cortisone or Bridge of the world, Part of the universe.

First of all, Panama is the narrow isthmus that joins the North and Southern American continents attached to the very end of Costa Rica.

and on top of Columbia straddling the Caribbean Sea in Atlantic Ocean to the east and specific to the West because of its curved shape.

This makes Panama the only place in the world where you can see both a sunrise on the Pacific and a sunset on the Atlantic at its narrowest point, the country is only about 30 miles or 48 kilometres wide.

The country is divided, interestingly, into 10 provinces, three indigenous regions and to indigenous municipalities within two of the provinces.

They have about 1500 islands, including the largest island in Central America.

Cohiba Island, just off the southwest coast.

The capital of Panama is Panama City, of course, where about half the population lives and holds the largest airport to commend International just on the eastern outskirts of the city.

The second largest airport would be the Bocas del Toro Airport on the popular resort island.

Otherwise, remaining airports are mostly just small regional airstrips, unless much of Panama's economy is based on the famous Panama Canal, built by the Americans for shipping and passenger vessels.

The largest ports, of course, being the port of Balboa in Panama City, which connects via canal all the way to the port of Cologne in the north side of the country.

Along the entire canal runs the Panama Canal Railway, the second most vital transport line after the canal, again built by the Americans, predating the canal by about half a century.

Otherwise, Panama is kind of where the famous Pan American highway gets cut off.

People trying to travel the world's longest Mota rubble road to Colombia will have no luck, as this entire area of marshy force known as the Darien Gap is where all the roads for about 60 miles, 400 kilometres cuts off the dense forest area and itself kind of acts as like the border with Colombia as no demarcation line is drawn, the furthest you can go is a town of visa, and from there good luck.

Most people just take a boat off the coast to Colombia.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has named the canal as one of the modern seven wonders of the world.

The canal was actually once considered US territory and finally relinquished in 1999 Also, Panama is the second largest duty free zone in the world after Hong Kong.

At one point, the Scottish tried to colonize Panama, but they grossly miscalculated the size of the mountains and the heat.

Anyway, I asked some of you guys, the Panamanian jogger peeps to list some of the top notable sites to check out in case if you visit, some of them include places like the Casco Viejo and San Jose Church Gold.

Get a town supposedly has the best coffee, the Biodiversity Museum, the soybeans, Tobacco Islands, Anton Valley, Hot Springs in better indigenous villages for San Lorenzo, Plaza de Francia, Cosway Plastic Bottle Village and the seafood markets.

Not just about, does it, of course, we could have mentioned a lot of other crazy amazing waterfalls and force that they have here.

We're square shaped tree trunks, but that's the natural beauty, which means we gotta move on, too.

Panama is one of those countries that just kind of respects nature, you know, they got a good thing going on, so why try to taint it?

First of all, the country is actually located and its own many tectonic plate, known as the Panama Plates, smashed in between the cocoas, NASCAR and Caribbean plates.

This, in return subjects Panama to occasional earthquakes, but not much.

The tallest peak in the country is actually a volcano, Vulcan Bahru, but it is not erupted in hundreds of years is part of the tip Asada Mountain chain, the longest in the country.

And on the east side you find the sunglass, SAPO and dairy and mountain chains, which extend all the way to Colombia.

The manmade artificial lake got tune created by the got to end damn on the Cha Gris River.

This lake, of course, assist the transporting of ships along the canal across the country.

Skip further east, you find the longest river, though the chicken AKI, which flows south into the unknown thick force of the Darien Gap.

Otherwise, the country is three main gulfs, a mosquito gulf in the north, and the S Radio Peninsula splits off the Gulf of Cherokee and the Gulf of Panama from each other, effectively making the country look like the shape of a limp hammer.

Now, of course, the abundance of nature and landforms gives Panama much more of an advantage than just the canal.

And with that, it's time for my triple shot espresso break, which means it's time for Noah.

Decades seen a massive construction in business boom, with a huge expat community moving in.

They had 12 of the 15 tallest skyscrapers in Latin America.

I still have the tallest one, though for now, anyway.

Not only are they one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America, they're an incredibly popular spot for retirees.

This is one reason why you don't see too many Panamanians leaving their country.

There's kind of more stability and opportunity available.

Most the economic activity in Panama, at about 80% is based in the service sector, and the canal alone revise a significant portion, mostly through tolls.

Almost that Truls holds are based on size, cargo and type of vessel cross, and the most ever paid was over $376,000 on a Norwegian cruise ship.

Agriculture only makes up about 7% of their GDP, with crops like coffee, bananas, sugar cane and coconuts.

Country as the 1000 bird species, including the national animal of the Harpy Eagle, as well as hundreds of mammal species ranging from giant ant eater to slop over 1/3 of Panama's natural park, which helps assist these animals from going endangered is even a cool turtle sanctuary run by this guy in a top it all off.

They have nine months of rain, which is why building that canal was so difficult to kept getting flooded and people died anyway.

Food Some of the top dishes, you guys, a Panamanian Johner Peep suggested we mentioned include things like Boyo, Carly Manola, Panamanian styled thick tortillas, Ropa vieja bien may sob fried fish like Pargo, Frito with Patagonia south south south.

They would do that like we got some sowles in the national dish song culture.

You can tell some of these dishes have a somewhat Caribbean flair, and that's what the story gets interesting because now we talk about the people in thank you know Panama sticks out from the rest of Latin America because it doesn't really quite belong or identify with either Central America or South America.

They never were part of the Federated States of Central America, and they fought to break away from Colombia back when it was Gran Colombia.

So it's like they wanted space from everyone.

In any case, the country is made up of about four million people and is the least populated nation in Central America.

About 65% of the population is misty, so that's mixed with native and European.

To some extent, about 13% of the population is native Amory Indian largest groups being the knob, kuna and Embera.

About 16% of population is black or mixed black, and the remainder at about 6% are white Panamanians.