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Darién (UK: / ˈ d ɛər i ə n, ˈ d ær-/, [3] [4] US: / ˌ d ɛər i ˈ ɛ n, ˌ d ɑːr-, d ɑːr ˈ j ɛ n /; [3] [5] [6] Spanish:) is a province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma.With an area of 11,896.5 km 2 (4,593.3 sq mi), it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá and the region of Kuna Yala.
The Pan-American Highway is a system of roads measuring about 30,000 km (19,000 mi) [14] in length that runs north–south through the entirety of North, Central and South America, with the sole exception of a 106 km (66 mi) stretch of marshland and mountains between Panama and Colombia known as the Darién Gap.
The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia, a colony in the Darién Gap on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s.
The Scottish settlement of New Edinburgh can be seen on the coast above right, west of the Gulf of Darien. Paterson relocated to Edinburgh, where he was able to convince the Scottish government to undertake the Darién scheme, a failed attempt to found an independent Scottish Empire in what is today Panama. Paterson personally accompanied the ...
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